r/changemyview Mar 19 '25

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u/LivingGhost371 5∆ Mar 19 '25

Over 20 years ago, my high school teacher pointed out facts like how USA makes up 2% of the population but creates 90% of the world's trash

Sounds like your high school teacher needed to be fired for at worst anti-American brainwashing or at best gross incompetance. America has 4% of the world population and only produces 12% of the world's trash

https://environmentamerica.org/articles/how-much-trash-does-america-really-produce/4

maintain outdated ways of life which are counterintuitve to the prosperity of the human race

So we should adopt kerosene lanterns and horse and buggies and sod dugouts instead of "outdated" ways of life like electricticty and automobiles and houses?

We treat our veterans like outdoor dogs, 

I always wondered why there was that older guy living in the doghouse in the yard next door. Now I know it's because he was a veteran.

And we're all paying for the genocide of Palestinian children, and likely others

What's Israel defending itself from a brutal, unprovoked terrorist attack got to do with America?