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submitted 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/world@lemmy.world

A lot of this is because they see plastics as the way to keep on extracting oil even if countries decide that burning it isn't a good idea.

They've also opposed efforts to limit that problem.

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[-] 30p87@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago

Saudi Arabia is cancer. I'm sorry to all the people that were born there.

[-] trajekolus@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

It is the Saudi royal family that is the cancer

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

As a Saudi who was born and live there, it has always baffled me how, despite the government and royal family being comically evil, the majority will still support them.

Even if you tell them and show them proof of the horrible crimes against humanity that happens daily, they'll either try to justify it, or brush it off saying "doesn't affect me".

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

يحسبونك مباحث تبغى توديهم ورا الشمس.

If you were Saudi you would have known the answer to this. 🥕🏒

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

“growing problem”—as if it wasn’t a Behemoth already.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

dumb all plastic to saudi arabia instead of sea

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Sabic -my former employer- is one of the world’s largest producers of petrochemicals including plastics.

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