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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty

It has already started. But not everyone is on board with this. So now what? We go to war about it?



You're totally right, it's too hard. And companies in first world countries are completely unaffected by law, so lobbying your representative would have zero effect. As would public awareness campaigns to help push the issue politically. And god knows that countries should only pressure each other for important things, like forcing extensions to copyrights for movies and music.

Let's just give up and go home, since apparently the only option is war.


"Well everything is fucked so we might as well not bother."


Oh we do "something" about it. But I just gotta point out that "forcing other people to do something" is typically a non-scalable solution. As soon as someone disagrees with you, you become deadlocked.

Its not enough to just say "force those other guys to clean it up". If you actually want to say that, you need an action plan (ie: how you plan to force those other guys to do stuff). If you're saying "pass a law", we can pass a law of course, but its not going to affect other countries.

This is a United Nations issue, and it needs to be solved globally.




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