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>You are wrong in pointing your finger to the business: we the buyers are to blame! That's a faulty logic. History has proven you can't just leave the responsi
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>You are wrong in pointing your finger to the business: we the buyers are to blame!
That's a faulty logic. History has proven you can't just leave the responsibility to the profit-at-all-cost free market to run things and then blame the individual consumers for the consequences. Otherwise we'd still be buying polluting gas guzzlers while LA and other cities would still be smog filled hell holes.
Was it the fault of consumers that decided to only buy polluting cars 50 years ago? Or was it that consumers just had no say in what manufacturers were making and were stuck with an offer of only polluting cars?
The solution was, you guessed it, government regulation from the EPA and EU to fix this and forced all auto-makers and industry to be less polluting and it was a great collective success that improved the air quality in our cities.
Same with e-waste and wasteful consumerism. All this can, and should be government regulated for the sake of our environment. The reason it's not yet regulated, is because unlike with car emissions, the environmental damage has been offshored from the west to developing nations on the other side of the planet.
- pif 4y agoConsumers are voters. Ever tried to push a political program based on import taxes in order to protect the local economy? Ever tried to convince your factory comrades that Chinese people have the right to clean air and strong unions, just as we do? Ever tried to convince people to pay more for the same object, just because it was made locally?