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Question: Corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily respect the environment.
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Strongly disagree
 
#2
Disagree
 
#3
Agree
 
#4
Strongly agree
 
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Total Voters: 56

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Lunar
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« on: November 13, 2004, 01:07:04 AM »

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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Lunar
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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2004, 05:42:23 PM »

It seems almost everyone agrees. 

The true balancing point between liberals and conservatives is to what extent we need those environmental regulations, especially compared with economic development.
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