"Free trade between the worlds nations is very pretty, but when accountability is very different in different country you get shit like that." Exactly, free tr

"Free trade between the worlds nations is very pretty, but when accountability is very different in different country you get shit like that." Exactly, free trade was never a level playing field and many nations have taken advantage of the fact. What annoys me most is that governments still pretend there's no problem and or that they're still pursuing individual free trade agreements without including provisions to cover these environmental issues. By our governments not doing so we are just shifting our 'shit' from our location to some other country with less ridged controls. We are dishonesty freeloading on others and the environment suffers just as much as if we'd not enacted our environmental laws. I recall this being obvious during the free trade debates of the Reagan-Thatcher era but Big Business had such a stranglehold on governments that there wasn't a snowball's chance of including not only the environmental stuff but also other important stuff such as wages parity, product quality (parity quality on like items)—junk product dumped at super low prices alone killed off many local industries and we still haven't fully recovered. Same goes for safety standards—countries with high standards had to reduce them to the lowest common denominator, and so on. What still worries me is why the populace at large swallowed this poisonous rhetoric without major objection. Remember, that happened in the 1930s with disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, that tragedy hasn't made the citizenry immune from such rhetoric. It seems to me that until we citizens find some way of protecting and immunizing ourselves from the snake oil salesmen then we're bound to repeat similar mistakes next time around.