Reply #14: You say that like its a bad thing! [View All]

[doodadem]

What's wrong with putting the environment before creating more wealth for corporations? How stinking rich do they have to be? I'll take a polar bear over a CEO any day!
Using that same argument, it's more economically beneficial for corporations to spew carbon dioxide, mercury, perchlorate, whatever into the environment. That doesn't mean they get to do it. Well, it didn't mean that before George Bush came along.
I think that's how this needs to be put to people: their own self interest. Do you want to keep breathing? Do you want to have decent water to drink? Uncontaminated food? Do you like to live in an ecologically diverse world, or do you want to harpoon baby seals?