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An excerpt from "The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken

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“The same distinction between growth and development can be drawn in the areas of energy production and energy conservation. Energy dependence in the United States has reached alarming levels, as attested by the Gulf War, in which more than 100,000 Iraqi regular troops were killed with bulldozers and carpet bombs to liberate the oil-rich plutocracy of Kuwait. Propaganda and wartime rhetoric aside, the war was conducted to ensure that supplies of oil from the Gulf region would not be interrupted. In business terms, this was a subsidy to oil companies paid by the U.S. taxpayer, an understandable expenditure, if it was truly needed. But in fact, if former President Reagan had not in 1984 rolled back the efficiency standards for American-produced automobiles, we would have been saving more oil than we were importing from the Gulf Region in 1991. This is not to say that U.S. and other allied troops would not have gone into the region anyway, but we can be sure that if Kuwait were poor and devoid of resources, there would have been much less popular support for the war, probably no invasion to begin with.”

From Page 141 of Chapter 9 (The Opportunity of Insignificance)
"The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken

...this brilliant and succinct excerpt was taken from a book about the relationship between commerce and ecology. When I encounter such passages, I can't resist sharing them with others.

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