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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
The oil sands a are an easy target, and Canada (especially our politicians) are easily bullied by the big bad USA.
People in China don't read US magazine and don't give a flyng f--- who Dicaprio is (let alone the politicians who wouldn't give him the time of day), and therefore he has no clout.
He (and others of his ilk) are clearly choosing the battles they can win, not the battles that might matter.
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Add on, if China had the protesters that we had, they'd have a ready source of organs for harvesting, and a heavy month end of bullet invoicing.
Canada is bullied like it is because we give too much of a crap about these protesters and environmental weinies who protest here, but don't do anything about the major polluters in the US and China.
We squeal when we perceive that someone is mad at us on an individual or group basis.
Because of that we've become an easy target of every group that wants to strut around saying, hey we're making a difference. But what about the US' disgusting energy industry in California, or the amount of coal that they rip out of the ground in those ugly destructive strip mines to export to dirty plants in India or China. Or how its ok for your environmentally sounds President to brag about being the pipeline president in the states, but the one that we ask for is dirty because it comes from the Oilsands. but its ok to pipeline the stuff from California.
I get the right to protest, I strongly dislike the professional protest movement that's there to make money via groups like Tides and the other ones.
Go and take a lash or a bullet in China, or get arrested and thrown in jail in India, or stand up to big Oil in California or Texas or in the middle American strip mines, at least then I would respect you for standing up for something and trying to make a difference.
Because we don't know where these so called foundations are getting their money from, my assumption is that these groups up here protesting are nothing more then as Stalin would have called them, useful idiots.
On top of it wheres the comprehensive environmnetal planning. I get that climate change is the big buzz word.
But what about the toxicity of the water and the destruction of those eco systems due to dumping of chemicals and waste (Yeah I'm looking at you Montreal, and your poop water program)
What about air quality? Don't hear much about that anymore except for the running joke that is China (Hey look Jesus could walk on air there)
What about the strip mining and the horrible destruction it causes to get coal out of the ground. (But its good for export says everyone)
Why don't we hear about Tides bribing people to protest these things, they might give it a cursory glance, but this planet doesn't need to focus on one thing anymore, we've got a whole ton of environmental disasters going on that are being ignored.
