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[–] apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

If you give me 7.5 billion i’ll do my very best to clean up the ocean too

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

This is /c/upliftingnews. I’ll take what I can get ☺️

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's like 0.8% of the US military budget for 2025. That's basically a rounding error

[–] apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup. It’s also 0.042% of China’s GDP, and I’ll bet they never get it.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

China's GDP is going to keeping a billion people housed and fed, and producing more solar panels than the rest of the world combined. The US military budget is going to blowing up brown people.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Those dastardly brown people. How dare they exist, usually without hurting anyone else??

[–] apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awesome way to say you don’t care about the planet by making excuses for China not picking lint out of its pocket to clean the ocean—and then somehow turning this into an ICE problem.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nobody said anything about ICE, we're talking about the military known for bombing weddings in multiple middle eastern countries and then bombing ambulances when they respond.

If you have the money to commit atrocities in a dozen countries at once, you have money to spare.

[–] apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have money to commit genocide against the Uyghurs you have money to spare.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

About 1.5% of Musk's net worth when it was at it's height when he was US President.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I think it's actually higher now. It's a whopping $480 billion now

Better that than it going to Tesla or whatever.