Each day we wake up and make myriad choices that affect others. We clothe ourselves with shirts, pants, and shoes that may have been sewn together by women working in factories fourteen-plus hours a day for a nonliving wage; we buy products manufactured in ways the destroy forests, pollute waterways, and poison the air; we wash our hair with shampoos that may have been squeezed into the eyes of conscious rabbits or force-fed to them in quantities that kill; and on and on. As Derrick Jensen has written in his book "The Culture of Make Believe", "It is possible to destroy a culture without being aware of its existence. It is possible to commit genocide or ecocide from the comfort of one's living room. Zoe Weil
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When you buy a shirt, a pair of pants, a pair of shoes, a shampoo manufactured by a company that is destroying forests and polluting the world, you are helping to destroy not only that particular company’s profit margin but also the entire culture of that company. As Derrick Jensen has written in his book "The Culture of Make Believe", “It is possible to destroy a culture without being aware of its existence. It is possible to commit genocide or ecocide from the comfort of one’s living room.”

Source: Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle For A Better World And Meaningful Life

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