Ah, so there has to be active precipitation.
Billionaires tend to be buisnesspeople, plenty of multinationals (most, actually) aren't owned by a billionaire, and non-billionaires can run businesses that operate in multiple countries (again, probably most of them).
A leader that is elected by their country, represents it.
Well, that's basically the propaganda. Says who? God? Physics? Neither. And, elect how? Some countries have proportional representation, which neither the US or Canada do.
At the end of the day, a state is anything that has a monopoly on the use of force. Some allocate political power within themselves through elections (of many massively different kinds), while some do it other ways.
You could say, "okay, elections have nothing to do with it, but we're still responsible for what we let our governments do", which covers the "it's a collective responsibility" bit. And there's a strong argument for that. But, by that measure pretty much everyone sucks everywhere, which you can take however you want.
400 million people is 400 million distinct people. Nobody could or does represent them; the idea that someone can represent "the will of the people" is propaganda. Same with every other government; they actually just have control.
Well, plenty of lives depend on petroleum products, too. And you can use sand or similar to prevent icyness, as well, although you need more of it.
And oil. And critical minerals. Apparently road salt too...
It's far from the least safe country to be gay in, and decent by regional standards, but yes, it's not the West.
I was wondering if it's an American dismissiveness thing, but it looks like other Americans in this thread think that's nuts, too.
If you turned down Harvard, sure, maybe it's a downgrade. I have to think a community or private school nobody's ever heard of would be worse. Unless you're planning to go back to the US to work, in which case US-first might bite you.
Emissions have measurably dropped under carbon pricing.
Yeah, there is that legal fiction, and typical way of looking at things, so it's not an incorrect phrasing. It's just kinda funny.
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It's weird there's no English word for that, now that you point it out, since it's a pretty common thing.