• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I wish them well. It feels good to be reminded that yes, there are still people out there trying to make things better. ❤️

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      If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

      If you give me 7.5 billion i’ll do my very best to clean up the ocean too

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        2 months ago

        That’s like 0.8% of the US military budget for 2025. That’s basically a rounding error

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            China’s GDP is going to keeping a billion people housed and fed, and producing more solar panels than the rest of the world combined. The US military budget is going to blowing up brown people.

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              Awesome way to say you don’t care about the planet by making excuses for China not picking lint out of its pocket to clean the ocean—and then somehow turning this into an ICE problem.

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                Nobody said anything about ICE, we’re talking about the military known for bombing weddings in multiple middle eastern countries and then bombing ambulances when they respond.

                If you have the money to commit atrocities in a dozen countries at once, you have money to spare.