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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
In your opinion, where does Canada's carbon absorbtion fit into all this? We hear so much about how Canada is helping to destroying the environment, but I know of no studies to quantify our overall absorbtion of CO2 and haven't heard out current climate change champions mention it at all.
To fit it into your example, I might toss a candy bar wrapper on the ground and my neighbor tosses out a bag, but I also pick up five wrappers. Why focus on the one I throw out only?
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Why not put the focus on both?
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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Not quite. It costs you $10 to have someone make that wrapper disappear. Now what should you do?
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Bring the dollar value back to something that actually fits the metaphor and it's still not unreasonable.
It's easy to do nothing and somehow justify it but it's better to take a step back and do the right thing.