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[--Pete]

Hi,

And who will support those laws? The majority that needed to be forced? They would simply vote for a Wilders and have the laws revoked, don't you think?

I don't think the majority is pro waste. I think the majority is apathetic and ignorant. Left to their own devices, they'll always take the easy way. They'll eat junk food rather than preparing a healthy meal. They'll buy cheap rather than good. They'll vote for their party rather than for individuals. They'll pay lip service to the religion of their parents rather than think for themselves. These are not the people that will look at an item and realize that it was made from materials recycled by children working under terrible conditions. Hell, these are the type of people who don't even know that that kind of situation exists.

So, depending on these people to join into an informed boycott is unrealistic. It would take a major change in human nature. Any solution that is based on unrealistic premises is at best useless and in some cases (communism is one such, being based on the incorrect concept that people will work as hard for the common good as they would for their personal benefit) downright harmful. Real solutions have to be based on the reality, not some ivory tower concept of what people should be.

My only point is that there is no reason to wait for laws that force you into doing things that you already want to do.

And that I can and do agree with. However, one needs to distinguish between what makes you feel good and what actually addresses the problem. To say that we should *all* be ecologically aware and responsible is right, to think that that will actually happen is a dream. The world needs more than a dream.

--Pete