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This doesn't change the fact that it will be more expensive to make things more environmental, it will be more expensive when labour gets more costly, it will be more expensive when energy gets more costly...resources more costly....etc. It doesn't matter how complicit or not the end user is in the environmental matters of producers. The end user will need to pay more if it will generally cost more to produce.
America's way of life will be punished mostly by the market. And there is little that government can do to stop it. Raising taxes, making cuts. Either way, it won't make anyone happy.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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