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I thought we like to have it both ways. We want to pay low prices for goods but still like to  point a finger at those who manufacturer these items and tell them to stop polluting the environment and exploiting their workers. This is partly how we got to be the economic powerhouse we are but when some other country wants to do it we say we don't like it because now realize their pollution is our pollution too.[/quote]

I don't want to have it both ways, actually!  I believe in paying a fair price for a product, considering the true cost of making the product -- paying the laborers a fair, living wage,  and not exploiting them or the environment.   If this means I consume fewer products, and have to reduce, reuse and recycle, then so be it.  If we all as a society had to use and buy less, I think we'd be better off for it -- certainly in the developed world.

And I dislike the Chinese government not regulating pollution more, not because it is bad for MY world, but because it is bad for the Chinese.  It's not fair to make them bear the brunt of our desire for lower costs.  Is it?[/quote]

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