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People get really defensive when this kind of stuff is said. I hear people in my country say that it’s the global north causing this issue and nothing they can do will really change that, which is true but then they proceed to throw their trash in freshwater lakes and you can’t blame the global north on that.
My father threw his trash in Lake Erie, same as his father before him, and his father before him. His father? Ran out of Scotland for throwing trash in Loch Lamond