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7. Yup and even better is the planetary death factory that are the Canadian "tar sands" where you cut down hundreds if not
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:59 PM
Aug 2025

….thousand of acres of boreal forest ecosystems in order to mine the tar sands which need to be heated so they
can pipe it down to deferent ports, refineries, and chemical plants and that sand sludge mix is called bitumen and it is
dense with greenhouse gases when burned along with sulfur and metals. Btw bitumen is really hard to clean up
when spilled.


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