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> The major industries don't just pollute for the sake of it, they respond to demand for which we individually share a part of the blame.

It seems to me like one could use the same argument regarding slave labor, but somehow we manage to force companies to comply there.

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In many places across the world it took herculean effort to force that change. But it did not happen because some abstract group of something did cause it to happen. It required major concerted actions, sometimes violent, of many individuals willing to take personal responsibility to change the situation.

You might be surprised that the entire slavery abolitionist movement was driven by people who refused consume goods from slavery, and partake in the institution.

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