This is just a few hours of the sea puking out whatever we’ve been throwing around. This is us, we did this collectively. (post on twitter by Avinash Khutel)
In Canada they're currently trying to guilt us over the pollution in the ocean, all the greenhouse gases, and every single unrecycled straw there ever was.
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I mean, we currently have garbage bins, recycling bins, and compost bins for a majority of the population (that they have to pay a fee for and cannot opt out of), we have bottle depots everywhere that seems to be almost worthy of being declared a tourist destination to a lot of Americans (not a shot at Americans - they just are almost always genuinely shocked that we have so many and use them. So are britlanders for that matter), and we are one of the top two carbon sinks in the entire world based due to the sheer volume of unspoiled greenspace.
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I'm not saying this to talk up canada or say we're perfect - I guarantee we have contributed to the problem. But I get so sick and tired of constantly having things tell us "LOOK AT THE MESS YOU MADE! THIS IS YOUR FAULT EQUALLY!"
Like, I'm sorry, no. We're bloody well taking steps to correct where we've gone wrong, and our entire population is less than the entire state of California. China and India collectively have 2.5 billion more people than us.
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Every single person in Canada could repurpose every single piece of garbage in their entire lives and it still wouldn't actually make a measurable difference.
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My point, I guess, is some of "us" have contributed more to the way things are than the rest, and unless "we" can convince "us" to make changes, nothing the rest of "us" do will ever truly be enough
Both the US and Canada have been sending their garbage and recycling to China and other SE Asian countries for years for sorting and processing instead of actually doing it here. They've started to stop and are basically saying "do it yourself"... so just wait, in a year, unless we find another place to outsource it, we're going to have major trash issues.
Most likely. Like I said, I didn't say canada was perfect - far from it. And i'm definitely not against methods to save the environment (even when they get frustrating). I'm just saying if China and India can't clean up THEIR acts (pun not intended) then there's literally no amount of guilt-tripping you can aim at Canada or, likely, America, that will ever make even a fraction of a dent.
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30 million people can't counteract the continued damage of 2.5 billion. It just doesn't work.
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Either way I think America's going to have more of a problem with it than Canada simply because population vs unoccupied land mass... Canada has a huge advantage in that regard. But only time will tell.
Well yeah, I'm just saying that right now neither your country nor my country have the infrastructure, and we're going to have to figure it out... and yeah, our problem is going to hilariously dwarf yours.
We arrested one of the higher-ups for Huawei (phone company) on behalf of America (Huawei was suspected of ignoring American sanctions, among other things).
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China didn't appreciate this. Instead of releasing her when they demanded we've been trying to extradite her to America (who are the ones who wanted her to begin with).
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In response China has taken two Canadians prisoner and accused them or being "spies" (or something similar), changed the charges of a drug dealer (who is Canadian) from prison time to an execution, claimed they found parasites or something in a bunch of our canola and banned it, and possibly were doing something similar to some of our other exports. And that's just the stuff I'm aware of.
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The fact that Canada doesn't support China's actions in Hong Kong probably doesn't help either.
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I mean, we currently have garbage bins, recycling bins, and compost bins for a majority of the population (that they have to pay a fee for and cannot opt out of), we have bottle depots everywhere that seems to be almost worthy of being declared a tourist destination to a lot of Americans (not a shot at Americans - they just are almost always genuinely shocked that we have so many and use them. So are britlanders for that matter), and we are one of the top two carbon sinks in the entire world based due to the sheer volume of unspoiled greenspace.
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I'm not saying this to talk up canada or say we're perfect - I guarantee we have contributed to the problem. But I get so sick and tired of constantly having things tell us "LOOK AT THE MESS YOU MADE! THIS IS YOUR FAULT EQUALLY!"
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Every single person in Canada could repurpose every single piece of garbage in their entire lives and it still wouldn't actually make a measurable difference.
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My point, I guess, is some of "us" have contributed more to the way things are than the rest, and unless "we" can convince "us" to make changes, nothing the rest of "us" do will ever truly be enough
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30 million people can't counteract the continued damage of 2.5 billion. It just doesn't work.
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Either way I think America's going to have more of a problem with it than Canada simply because population vs unoccupied land mass... Canada has a huge advantage in that regard. But only time will tell.
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China didn't appreciate this. Instead of releasing her when they demanded we've been trying to extradite her to America (who are the ones who wanted her to begin with).
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In response China has taken two Canadians prisoner and accused them or being "spies" (or something similar), changed the charges of a drug dealer (who is Canadian) from prison time to an execution, claimed they found parasites or something in a bunch of our canola and banned it, and possibly were doing something similar to some of our other exports. And that's just the stuff I'm aware of.
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The fact that Canada doesn't support China's actions in Hong Kong probably doesn't help either.