Dear Lisa (forwarded message below line)
"how do we measure":
-Every year the 100 CONVICTED and FINED corporations (that are alleged
to be the tip of an iceberg of many others that are not caught) are
fined. This year (if i find the link i shall post it), around 37 were
convicted for environmental crimes. Most of the rest were convicted for
fraud, and for their effort to create monopoly cartels.
-Like in the case of AMOCO or the logging company in Canada recently, we
can measure the people arrested and beaten while only campaigning
peacefully, the occasions this is done and the type and names of
companies involved. Recently the ones that are really in fashion are
logging and oiling companies. They have the most victims.
-We can measure the environmental refugees from their deeds.
-We can measure the dead from at least accute forms of pollution.
-We can measure the quality of air, land and water in any country.
In the US, if you make a search for "scorecard" you get on EPA's web
page with all pollution in your backyard.
Maria-Stella Aloupie
(with a broken jaw by the police in a peaceful campaign)
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> Subject: Re: STATE & CORPORATE ???? Ethical Decisions; former; state
> and corporate terrorism
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> ....... And this leaves me the
> second problem that how do we decipher; how do
> we know the coorporations which do harm and do good.
> And if some are in the middle. With no choice but
> to have trade offs, how do we account for them.
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> But the issue is
> even more to me how do we measure the whole kit and
> kaboodle.Is there someway we can ever have just good, is that what
> we are trying to achieve? Ultimately, are we
> looking for everything, a clean environment, wealthy
> economy, are these standards possible? Or is humanity
> looking for the less ideal?
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