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kristopher

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5. That doesn't make a bit of sense.
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 02:22 PM
Nov 2013

1) Those 90 companies are serving the interests of a small fraction of the world's population. To acribe blame to those who have nothing is absurd.

2) What customers are willing to buy has little to do with the political and economic power that controls the range of products made available to be purchased. The dominant market players CAN AND HAVE used their economic and political power to limit the range of choices available to consumers.
Without the active exercise of that power, problems that the public cares about (and the public does care about climate change) would be debated, and a values based political decision would be made to guide us s to more sustainable products and practices.


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