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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sorry, this isn't news.

They've been towing these nets around for a decade now.

The article says, if you give them 4 billion with a b dollars they will "clean up" the garbage patch.

No shit. Give someone a lot of money and things can be done. The problem as we all know is that there is no money available for this type of project.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If we cancelled the order of ~40 F-35s, we could have that 4 billion dollars.

    If we appropriately taxed the rich, we could do it without even having to cut the precious military spending.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The weird thing is that money isn't real. It's just an arbitrary idea of how much somebody thinks someone/something else is worth. When was the last time we had enough gold to back up all the money promises in the world? That was a long long long time ago.

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