Provide true cost of products, including environmental cost
Q: How would you balance environmental protection against free market economics?
A: Voodoo economics is the standard in the USA, rather than True Cost Economics. Within our present corrupt system, the US Government has been bribed to validate a
predatory capitalist system that concentrates profit and externalizes cost to the public and to future generations. It is the educated public that guide markets, not the government, but the government--if it were honest--would have a role to play
in supporting an app that allows every citizen to scan a bar code and immediate see the true cost of any product.
Q: You mean that "true cost" would include environmental costs?
A: The true cost of any product
[includes the] amount of virtual water, fuel consumed over life cycle, toxins emitted, [as wellas non-environmental costs such as] hours of child labor, and degree of tax avoidance through fraud.
Poverty causes more environmental damage than corporations
Changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take 3.
Poverty is are more important than Environmental Degradation because the poor cause more damage to the environment than all corporations together
Environmental Degradation
includes Climate Change, mercury & sulfur worse than carbon
Levees across the country are at risk because of Army Corps of Engineers ignorance and irresponsibility
Acts of Man are creating the increasing frequency and severity of storms
Source: Email interview on presidential race with OnTheIssues.org
, Jan 2, 2012
Green community design plus high-speed rail
We need a national technology strategy that integrates green and non-toxic building design with sustainable resilient community design, high-speed rail, point to point aviation, distributed
Open Source Farming, and so on.
Source: Email interview on presidential race with OnTheIssues.org
, Jan 2, 2012