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    Well, Gary Hammell said to All on 05 Jun about: Oil Companies....
 

 gh> Why doesn't someone sue an oil company or a car manufacturer for the 
 gh> environmental damage they cause through the promotion/production of 
 gh> their products.  Couldn't GreenPeace, or some other organization, 
 gh> afford to do this.  The organization could act on behalf of both 
 gh> humanity and every other species on earth.  What a precedent this 

   A class action suit?  It doesn't happen because of values.  The
   current economic system assumes that the environment's job is
   to subsidize pollution by letting them spew their wastes into the
   public domain.  Cleaning up your mess should be a cost of doing 
   business.  In effect, this is a corporate cost that is transferred 
   directly to the people for them to deal with.  The "corporate 
   welfare" angle should be emphasized by us.

 gh> now, offered the public a clean burning fuel, they'd corner the market
 gh> and make tons of money.

   Therefore I believe no such thing is profitable.

 gh> What do you all think about the "sue an oil company today" idea?

   Cleaning up your own mess --  is ahead of it's time.  You touch
   on one of many fallacies in our economic systems.  Another holy
   cow is free market pricing  --  which is very near sighted.  In
   essence, our entire economy is built on a bankrupt foundation of 
   sand, and the tide is coming in.  Many fallacies....

   When I talk to scientists about economic theory, their tongue 
   falls out in disbelief.  They just assumed that economists also
   had a world view based in reality.  The blind dogmas of economics 
   is beyond my ability to describe.

   Doug


... Ecology & Economics have the same root word for good reasons.