Designing for the future and seeking new ways to be mindful of the climate is great, but this person has taken the concept several iterations too far. Once you start getting hesitant about using mealworms to consume plastic waste because it feels "very capitalistic", you're just shooting yourself in the foot.
> Hedström has proposed factory-like systems that would feed plastic waste to mealworms on an industrial scale, but he grapples with the ethical and practical problems in doing so. (It takes a colony of three to four thousand mealworms a week to digest a coffee cup.) “It’s very capitalistic or, like, it’s a very human way of thinking,” Hedström said. It doesn’t feel like symbiosis if one of you is being farmed.
This is a good example of ideology gone too far. Taken to the extremes, even good intentions start getting weirdly misaligned.