The environment

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I find it interesting that even Republicans agree with this. Why, even a Libertarian agrees!

Corporations are there to make money and part of making money is keeping expenses low. Not cleaning up a mess or manufacturing without regard for polluting by-products is a way to keep expenses low.

None of this is to say that all corporations think this way. It is a question of leadership insisting that the right thing be done. And some have led the way in deveolping technologies where they they can actually make money by not polluting. Unfortunately, most are too myopic and unimaginative to figure out how to do it.

A great book on this subject is called "Natural Capitalism" by Hawkins, Lovins and Lovins. Its a great bit of free market environmentalist thinking.