Sincerely

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!

There is also no accountability for producers, the costs of their activities are not their own. Owners don’t live near the pollution created and they won’t need to deal with it. Public money picks up trash, processes wastewater, cleans up spills and disasters. We pay for testing, regulators, lawmakers- all the people entrusted to make sure operations are safe. We even maintain the infrastructure that crumbles more quickly under the weight of industry. Despite this, we subsidize production to encourage more growth. . . . . Waste is a big expense for us, so we spend money encouraging more waste. Its a double team. He’s not opening the window, and we’re too busy making him chili to do it ourselves.

Analogy. The public is well aware of the destructive nature of urban sprawl. Developers get blamed for building neighbourhoods that require commuting and government gets blamed for expanding the roads. In this instance we may implicate drivers and homeowners for creating a demand, but outright blame, forget it. The consumer isn’t at fault. Ultimately we know that politicians made all the decisions that count, not consumers. There is no disconnect between the cause of the problem and the culprit. We remember who built that new highway, we even know the bugger’s smiling face from his posters… But me eating a candy? That’s seems exclusively between me and the candy, a carefully constructed illusion. I don’t know who made it, what its contents are, or where any of it came from- but its the one with the pink label and i’m a bad person for eating it.

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