ChiComs Responsible for 90% of the plastic in the oceans today

RUSH: By the way, have you seen these scary environmentalist wacko stories about all of the plastic that’s in our oceans, and it’s killing all the fish, and it’s killing all the whales, and it’s polluting the planet so much that aliens might not want to come. Have you seen those stories?

… there supposedly is a giant plastic junkyard in the Pacific Ocean way out there northwest of Seattle and Portland. Well, guess what? Ninety percent of the plastic in the oceans today comes from the ChiComs. I kid you not. The data is there. The Chinese pollute oceans with plastic, close to 90% of it. The United States contribution to plastic pollution in the oceans is 2%.

Now, you might be saying, “How can that be? We’re the biggest economy. We’re bigger than China.” Yes, but we clean up our messes better than anybody else in the world, folks. That’s part and parcel of capitalism. Part of it’s the pride of ownership, if you want to get right down to it. When you own something, when you’ve worked hard to own it, you take care of it.

If it’s given to you, it’s not nearly the same to you. It just isn’t. This is human nature. If you have no direct tie to any of it, if it’s not yours, then it becomes easy to say, “Well, the next guy will clean it up,” or whatever. But it’s undeniable. The United States, we have far more economic output than any nation on earth, and compared to all those other nations like the Chinese, like Russia, we have the cleanest air, we have the cleanest waters.

… you remember the story that we have had about the banning of plastic straws in California and so forth, the imprisonment, six months in jail, maybe a thousand-dollar fine …At any rate, 500 million straws per day supposedly, and the formula to arrive at this number was created by a fourth grader, a 9-year-old in 2011. Quote, “That figure has been cited widely, appearing in stories by USA Today, CNN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and, yes, even The New York Times. But consider the source: The number is based on research conducted years ago by an enterprising 9-year-old Vermont boy named Milo Cress.”

… it cannot be verified…

…look how quickly and how eagerly this, quote, unquote, research was glommed onto.

And of course part and parcel of this is the United States is largely to blame.

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