| If you haven’t gotten a chance, get the May 2007 issue of Vanity Fair. |
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One of the many great articles is “Jungle Law” – about Chevron/Texaco and their destruction of the Amazon of many many years, and the current Ecuadorian court case against them.The lead attorney against Chevron is Pablo Fajardo – you have to read the story to believe it. However, towards the end, he comes out with one of those statements that is so fundamentally true, it needs to be said more often.”One of the problems with modern society is that it places more importance on things that have a price than on things that have value. Breathing clean air, for instance, or having clean water in the rivers, or having legal rights – these are things that don’t have a price but have a huge value. Oil does have a price, but its value is much less. And sometimes we make the mistake” |
~ by septemous on May 19, 2007.
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