My $0.00000000000000000001 is that everyone has to do what they can when they can. That first starts with voting with your wallet and supporting as many local / country products and services that you can.
Buying American / Canadian helps everyone in the supply chain.
The problem with trying to go this route all the time is many items (products) are no longer made in North America. It was the creed of Profit Before People that got us where we are today with respect to why so many items are made off shore. Cheap labor, no environmental impact, price point, that could meet any consumer demand. You'll never see an existing plant that makes clothes move back to North America because that same garment would cost easily 30-50% more for the same.
Anyone who has ever lived by a tannery, coal mine, name what ever heavy industry in their backyard knows the environmental impact it has on the area and people. I don't recall where it is in the USA but want to say its in Michigan??
Anyways seeing burning water coming out of the running facet like fuel is truly a WTF??
There's another place in the USA where the retention ponds for whatever industry was leaching into the ground for decades. All of the people down stream have like every known cancer known to man and they company says its just natural???
North America moved all of the dirty tech offshores because it helped keep prices low and profits high. While also leaving behind the environmental impact to those countries that saw $$$$ instead of understanding you can't be spending $$$$ when you're all dead and dying!
This is why most recently China and others have stopped accepting almost every form of recycling material. They produce enough and recycle their own to remake it into something else. They don't need to be a dumping ground for the world and now everyone is scrambling to figure out what to do with the billions of tons of waste.
Buying American / Canadian helps everyone in the supply chain.
The problem with trying to go this route all the time is many items (products) are no longer made in North America. It was the creed of Profit Before People that got us where we are today with respect to why so many items are made off shore. Cheap labor, no environmental impact, price point, that could meet any consumer demand. You'll never see an existing plant that makes clothes move back to North America because that same garment would cost easily 30-50% more for the same.
Anyone who has ever lived by a tannery, coal mine, name what ever heavy industry in their backyard knows the environmental impact it has on the area and people. I don't recall where it is in the USA but want to say its in Michigan??
Anyways seeing burning water coming out of the running facet like fuel is truly a WTF??
There's another place in the USA where the retention ponds for whatever industry was leaching into the ground for decades. All of the people down stream have like every known cancer known to man and they company says its just natural???
North America moved all of the dirty tech offshores because it helped keep prices low and profits high. While also leaving behind the environmental impact to those countries that saw $$$$ instead of understanding you can't be spending $$$$ when you're all dead and dying!
This is why most recently China and others have stopped accepting almost every form of recycling material. They produce enough and recycle their own to remake it into something else. They don't need to be a dumping ground for the world and now everyone is scrambling to figure out what to do with the billions of tons of waste.
