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Yeah, funny how that works. We sure export a heap of that junk, along with all sorts of other poisons. So much for ethics.drbill:My Costa Rican housemate talks with disdain about the DDT banned here in the States but sold to Costa Rica and other Latin countries by US manufacturers for use on crops there. Shameful practice.
grazie42:I´d think so...enviromental and labourlaws are a lot more lax in the "outsourced" countries...usually tax and financial laws too...
grazie42:A "slight" hi-jack...
I think something needs to happen to the way our societies "work"...
In "primitive" societies about 4hrs a day is spent "working" the rest of the time is "free".
With all our advances you´d think that we´d be spending LESS time or at least not more time "working"...a lot of people belive that todays system is not sustainable long-term either and I´d tend to agree...
Kinda makes you wonder about all this "progress"...
I don´t have a "back to nature"-agenda but when you think about it...the way most of us live our lives makes no sense, at least not to me...there must be a "better" way to go about this...I think our economic systems need a restructuring...I´m not talking about communism either...it needs to be something that works and works well for most people and that is sustainable...of course I don´t see myself enjoying life without the benefits of technology, international travel etc and I obviously don´t have any answers...
Yes, you'd think so. The problem for our planet though would be that the Moon is probably the closest backyard that we have and we'd probably have quite a struggle getting companies to re-locate!gcbryan:It's better to just move the apple orchard to the backyard.