A lot of this is because they see plastics as the way to keep on extracting oil even if countries decide that burning it isn’t a good idea.

They’ve also opposed efforts to limit that problem.

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Saudi Arabia is cancer. I’m sorry to all the people that were born there.

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The projects that are getting build there are using labourers from third world country in the most inhumane conditions still going unnoticed.

Same here in case of plastics.Let the world go to hell but the Sheikh s get their coffers filled with cash.

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Unnoticed? We have known for years, we are just unwilling to do anything about it.

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Its still unnoticed by the world. Meant its open truth but nobody is doing nothing.

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Go on, give 'em a world cup

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It started with Qatar … And then the story continues.

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Name a country that hosted that isn’t guilty of something past or present.

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Also, no human rights. Except if you believe in brainrot bullshit and are a straight male.

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U meant complete cocked male ?

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Agree with that … No-human rights at all

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It is the Saudi royal family that is the cancer

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As a Saudi who was born and live there, it has always baffled me how, despite the government and royal family being comically evil, the majority will still support them.

Even if you tell them and show them proof of the horrible crimes against humanity that happens daily, they’ll either try to justify it, or brush it off saying “doesn’t affect me”.

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يحسبونك مباحث تبغى توديهم ورا الشمس.

If you were Saudi you would have known the answer to this. 🥕🏒

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Ah yes, and because you worked with some german companies you know exactly that I like genocide. Got it.

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“growing problem”—as if it wasn’t a Behemoth already.

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dumb all plastic to saudi arabia instead of sea

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Sabic -my former employer- is one of the world’s largest producers of petrochemicals including plastics.

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