Robert Steele on Environment

Provide true cost of products, including environmental cost

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

Green community design plus high-speed rail