To: The
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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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