I'll take your plastic and raise you the real and irritating difficulty with buying many useful and in many cases essential (or close to) products without buying plastic. Electronics at costco being made "shoplift" proof by being made BIG with plastic is a big one. The fact that the toilet paper I just bought (I just realised) is wrapped in plastic around the 24 rolls AND around each group of 4. Why? Double wrapped toilet paper? really?
The status of Puerto Rico
The status of just about all the indigenous people in the americas
Everything about the way food is done in the world.
The historical moment when the car industry crushed the railroad industry.
The cost of housing
The cost of education
I'll see your patriarchy and raise you gender inequity
I'll also see your globilization-as-colonialism and raise you colonialism
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:57 pm (UTC)The status of Puerto Rico
The status of just about all the indigenous people in the americas
Everything about the way food is done in the world.
The historical moment when the car industry crushed the railroad industry.
The cost of housing
The cost of education
I'll see your patriarchy and raise you gender inequity
I'll also see your globilization-as-colonialism and raise you colonialism
The embargo on Cuba