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If someone builds a shitty damn (for holding water), and it collapses, and this results in flood waters destroying whole cities, and while your house is being destroyed by water, is it really worth it to focus on your neighbor pissing into the water from his rooftop? I mean yes.. technically he's contributing to the flooding, but you know...

https://old.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/dbabxu/til_tha...

combine this ^ with:

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/12/05/tale-fish-two-cou...

> An example of this would be when a wild cod is caught off the coast of Alaska and, due to economic factors, is shipped to another country to be fabricated into fillets and packaged. If this process of turning a whole fish into packaged fillets occurs in China, the cod fillets are declared “Wild Caught Product of China” upon import into the United States.

So, I cannot buy straws because of pollution, but large industry, can catch fish in alaska, transport it to china, process it there, transport it back to US and sell it?




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