I was thinking about images like this. Specifically the ones of children working through e-trash in India, and how people say they don't throw away electronics because it creates a market for children digging through trash. But that trash in India didn't come from the US. That's Indian e-waste they are digging through. The point is that their problems are pretty much entirely domestic, and nothing we do here has any impact at all. You aren't saving the rain forest by using less paper. You are just making it so fewer pine farms get planted in the US.
Also I heard a story from a former boss about how they would volunteer in Haiti and there were children who would eat rocks and dirt just to fill their stomachs, because they don't have food. But they do have food. How have the adults lived this long if the country literally doesn't have food? It's because the adults aren't feeding the children. That's not a resource problem.
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