To:    The New York Times
Re:    Today's pro-free-trade editorial: Hong Kong Holding Pattern
Date:  Monday 19 December 05

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
"Free trade is not sustainable . . ." Period! Not on a planet with limited natural resources, a finite carrying capacity, and 6 billion plus insatiable human beings all (or nearly all) wanting, once they can afford it, to live grossly materialistic and utterly unsustainable American-like lifestyles!
 
If we don't want to screw the planet, and our own children's future, entirely, we need fair and rational trade, based on our more enlightened, human nature, not the free-market free-for-all we largely have at the moment, which is rooted in our primitive animal nature. Not surprisingly, in view of what Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human origins. But Christian fundamentalists are not the only ones refusing to face up to the full implications of that (see An anthropological approach to sustainability).

 

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