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Originally Posted by Ashasx
But if your goal is to actually make a difference regarding climate change, refusing to sell them bitumen makes no difference.
We can say that Canada is taking a stance against climate change by refusing to sell to China while China continues to buy from other markets that have zero regard for the environment. The net result, at best, is emissions do not change.
But Canada can be happy that we don't directly contribute to these emissions, I suppose. Even if the planet is no better for it.
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Again, this argument is akin to enabling offenders. Let's use a drug analogy.
If China wants to buy hard drugs and smoke them (in the same room as the rest of us, no less), we should be the ones supplying them because otherwise they'll just get it from Saudi Arabia? Even though we all suffer by their continued drug usage?
See this is where I can't agree with supplying them. I'm also not as easily convinced with the "benefit the producer" argument, in which revenue from that drug usage goes into our own pockets because we make it "ethically".
Idealist, I am.