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Originally Posted by Daradon
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.
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I see the protesting as a waste though, even agreeing with all the benefits of the protests you list above its a waste of protesting resources. Protest against polution that cant be exported.
Target coal power plants in Canada. That would be a real way for Canada to meet ghg targets and a real way for Canads actions to reduce world wide CO2 production.
We have a limited number of people who are willing to go out and protest and they are protesting inefficiently.