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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
And that's the problem that I see right now, the protesters don't care on a global sense, they don't go after the Venezuela's and the Middle Eastern States for their environmental record or human rights records, and they certainly don't care about the mega carriers bringing Oil into Canada and the U.S.
I guess its easier to protest our energy industry,
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Well yeah, it is. Kinda a no-brainer. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. What are Canadian protesters going to do about Saudi oil policy? Really? Your example has about the same sense as a 5 year old arguing, 'it's not fair'. Maybe it's not, but does that change the conversation, or the importance of cleaning it up here?
The only thing they can do, is attack it from the demand side, which they are trying to do with green initiatives. Which the government seems to be working against. So we can sell our oil. So really, the best place to protest IS here.
And guess what? If demand does go down, that will affect change everywhere. Little by little, it will help.
Lastly, once there is change in places we can affect change, it makes it easier to affect change in other places. We've seen that will all other sorts of humanitarian and environmental change. It may not be as fast or as dramatic as you want, but it happens.