Lunar
Atlas Superstar
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« on: November 13, 2004, 01:07:04 AM » |
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Strongly agree.
Corporations can't be trusted because consumers can't be trusted. Even if each tissue chopped down a rainforest, you can bet that at least 10% of consumers would buy those tissues if they were 50 cents cheaper. In addition, the consumer body at large won't react to environmental issues until they've already crossed the line into a crisis. Government action and environmental regulations are thus needed.
I'm not militant about this, I'm just a skeptic of the free market. I'm in favor of drilling in ANWR and off all of the US Coastlines, so I think I'm fairly moderate on the environment issue.
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