I was reading my Cultural Ecology book today and Mr.s Sutton and Anderson were going on and on about how destructive Western farming techniques are both to the environment and underdeveloped countries, and the further i read the more disgruntled i became. I can't stand it when i read things that directly attack a certain style of, well anything. Obviously i strongly disagree with how rampantly free industries are to pollute and think it's an absolute crime that they don't change their ways to save our world, but still it makes me angry to hear people rant about how "evil" big corporations are and how anything that generates money is something diabolical that must be fought against.
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I would find it much more preferable to develop a new way of doing things, show the industries, and then only financially support the ones who use the newer more eco-friendly techniques. Let's face it, the only thing capitalism garuntees is that companies will do their level best to generate as much money as possible, and we need to work to ensure that money gets distributed as evenly as possible. We can't just sit back and expect them to take factors like the environment into account, because right now it isn't a problem that's stopping them from getting money. It doesn't matter, they can ignore it. So they will. Is this surprising to you? Do you expect them to drop out of competition and spend millions of their dollars on conservation instead of, say, marketing and expansion? Guess what peoples, that's not how they play. They can't, they'll get out-progressed and fold and it's senseless to want that.
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Companies are very easy things to play with, actually. You know how you can tie a feather to the end of a string and a kitten will do anything in its power to catch it? You can lead the dumb little mofo in any direction cuz it wants that feather. Companies are no different at all, they follow money around even more blindly than the kitty. Who has all the money? Les consumers. We do. We're holding the string. You want companies to go in an environmentally safe direction? Lead 'em that way! Okay now that all the dumb hippies left to weave the world's largest hemp rope with hopes of attracting ExxonMobil's attention, i'll say that it's obviously not a strictly physical string. But if a company sees that all the 90% recycled polystyrene items are being bought, you can bet your farm that they'll build themselves a recycling plant and get busy. If we stop buying wood made from tropical trees and stick to temperate hardwoods and plastic planks, bang we just saved a zillion acres of rainforest without a single protest. And more importantly, no bad blood. No one being angry at each other, no contempt by the beaurocratic for the environuts and hatred vice versa. Just Americans being awesome and using our massive money might to protect that awesome planet thing we live on. Awesome.
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Stop the hating and back off my country, Sutton. When i'm President i'm gonna whip the populace into shape and tell them to start controlling the country for themselves instead of whining and wanting the government to somehow do it all. What lazy inconsiderate ungrateful fools. "Waahhh the government isn't spending a billion dollars on this problem! or that one! or this vague one over here! The government spends too much money aaaa i'm so sad i'm moving to Canada". Well dammit folks you have most of the money. Band together, whiners, control your urges and stop demanding that the government fix problems you've created and aren't doing a thing to fix. Let Washington establish trade and fight bad guys, you take care of the rest and quit your whining.
