Western Consumption Helping to Kill Off Species
12th June 2012
Grab a coffee, add two sugars, and check the news on your tablet: you’ve just helped kill off a species in a country you might never have heard of.
Thank God. I was afraid I’d never have an opportunity to make a difference.
As much as a third of global species threats are due to global trade, the research finds. This is a huge shift, the researchers say, compared to a pre-globalised world, where many species threats were localized (due, for example, to local demands for food, fuel and living space).
We have the technology.
June 13th, 2012 at 04:31
It’s the Capitalist Way: privatize the profits and socialize the costs.
June 13th, 2012 at 11:18
Capitalist Opportunity: Non-networked organic tea cafe as the anti-Starbucks. In the right neighborhood, the place could rake in the idiots..er, customers.