The Earth Day Concert

August · 04-24-07, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by waste gate

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

It's hardly just buying your way out. Is giving to charity buying your way out? In a moral suasion sense, yes. But you're also giving to an organisation that can put that fifty bucks to more effective use than you can individually.
And there's hard evidence, too. If your money kicks the total over the amount to buy scrubbers, a factory's atmospheric emissions can be reduced. It's not an indulgence :p

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I'm all for capitalism, but if a crisis really existed how does money aleviate that crisis?

money can be exchanged for goods and services

And do the people to whom you give your money turn around and give it to corporations to buy these scrubbers of which you speak? betcha not.

Not only that, the devil is in the definitions. Do they include everything? Such as the gas people used to get to the concert, the power and pollution caused to advertize it? The trash it generated? I wonder...