My Plastic Fork Ends Up In The Ocean. WTF!
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Summary
In this episode I talk about single-use plastics and how they are ruining our environment. I explain why and why not. I also talk about why we should burn all of this stuff and burn it in the ocean.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to my channel. Today we're going to talk about single-use plastics.
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Before I do that, I want to thank you very much for watching my last video on the possible Alberta
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blackout during our cold spell here. More than 4,000 people have watched that. You may want to
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click on it after you watch this. So single-use plastics, this is target number one for leftists
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and regressives everywhere. I call them regressives because there's nothing progressive about them at
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all. Our city council here in Calgary has figuratively got us eating our food with our
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hands again. I'll get to that in just a moment. But I'm going to talk about this from a local
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standpoint to start, federal standpoint in Canada, and this may be affecting you somewhere around the
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world because leftists, they're trying to get rid of this stuff. And I'm going to explain why it's
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stupidity. So anyway, here in Calgary, they passed a bylaw last year saying you're going to get charged
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for paper bags, 15 cents, a dollar for plastic bags if you use them when you go out and you're
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buying stuff at a grocery store or anywhere in the city. You're going to get charged extra, which
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I always thought the bag was part of the cost of me buying things. It was just something extra I was
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given because I'm buying something in a store. But not anymore. Stores are being forced to do this by
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our regressive city council. Now that price, 15 and a dollar, is going to go up and double. So it'll be
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30 cents for paper, $2 for plastic very soon. Now, here's where it's a real issue. And this is
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coming up more and more. And you're seeing stories about this in local media. You go out maybe with
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your kids to a soccer game. You've got two kids in the back seat. There's you and your husband or wife
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and you go out to McDonald's and you want to pick up four burgers, four fries, four apple pies,
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and four drinks. And you go and you order your food. You pull up to the window and they start
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handing you the food single item by single item out the window. And you say, what?
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Why is it not being put in a bag? You have to ask for a bag. Well, can I have it put in a bag,
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please? That's going to charge, you're going to get charged an extra 15 cents. Excuse me?
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I'm getting charged 15 cents just to have a paper bag? Yeah, yeah. And it's going to be 30 cents next
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year. Now this is lunacy. This is insanity. First off, paper is a renewable product. You just
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grow another tree and you've got more paper. We should burn that for energy. I've been saying that for
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years. So why don't we just burn the stuff, set up a plasma burner. They do this in places in Europe,
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places around the world, burn garbage for energy, but they should be burning it for energy at the
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very least. But they shouldn't be charging you 15 cents. It should be built right into the cost
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of the product you're already buying. For God's sakes, it's 15 cents. Don't inconvenience me.
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Give me my freaking paper bag with my food in it. That's what I expect. That's not what city council
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wants you to have. They want to charge you. Now, right now it's the retailers that's going to get
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the money. But once the price goes up, I have no doubt city council is going to find some way to
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skim money off this, to put it in their coffers, to waste on some left-wing lunatic idea in the
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future. Okay. So that's where we are right now in Calgary. Now on a federal level, the federal
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government tried to ban plastic items, single-use plastic forks, knives, spoons, straws.
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Now, federally, you couldn't use them anywhere in the country. You would never get a plastic item
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again in the whole country, but that was struck down by the Supreme Court. And I believe the federal
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government is going to appeal this at the highest court in the land once again. Now, this is the
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reason why they want to do this. Our nutcase prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and his criminal,
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Stephen Gilboa, environment minister, think stuff like this ends up out in the environment.
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Now, this is where this strikes you probably at a more local level, no matter where you live in the
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world. They think this ends up in the environment. They think stuff like this ends up in the ocean.
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Now, I want to ask you a question. I live 15, 16 hours from the Pacific Ocean here in Calgary,
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Alberta. How, if I throw this into my garbage bin or into a recycling bin, does this end up in the ocean?
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That's ridiculous. It's impossible. This, if it's thrown into a garbage bin, is supposed to go to a
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landfill site. If it's thrown into a recycling bin, it's supposed to be recycled. If it's ending up in
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the ocean, somebody is committing a crime here and we need to look into this. Now, we all know that's
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not happening, but that's what the left believes. They believe this stuff ends up in the ocean or in
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the environment somewhere. And it doesn't. Most of the stuff, the plastic that's in the ocean is there
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because of two places, Africa and Asia. There are videos online of dump trucks full of garbage pulling
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up to rivers, dumping all of the garbage into the river that goes downstream and it ends up in the
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oceans. 95% of all pollution and plastic pollution in oceans is caused by Africa and Asia. We've been
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throwing this stuff in garbage bins and in recycling bins for years. This does not end up in the ocean,
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but that's what the left believes. The left does not think logically like you do. The left thinks
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emotionally, oh, it's going to end up in the ocean. Ban it! Because that's what they're all about.
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These people are, I said it in my last video, these people are insane and they need to be stopped.
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Okay, they need to be stopped. How do we stop them? Vote them out! And you know, I live in a very
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conservative province. I love it here because I'm a conservative and we vote conservative federally.
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Hardly a single leftist gets in in all of Alberta, but we vote in these lunatics on city council and
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they all need to be thrown out on their asses because the regressives are a threat to the way you
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live. I know it's only a plastic straw, but if they can ban a plastic straw, something so insignificant,
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what else are they going to do to you? Thanks very much for watching. If you liked the video,
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give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. You know, maybe I'll do some more videos in the future.