Sunday, February 7, 2010

Have your (sustainable) fish and eat it!




Got this link from a friend, who I am surprised to have caught up with in such unlikely event, and not knowing that he has became such a fervent environmentalist.

It's all about exercising your consumer power, to decide where you want to spend, how you want to spend, and in the process, condoning/condemning the way how certain businesses are run. In the long run, only when there is enough consumer pressure or financial incentives, businesses with good governance to the people, land and other natural resources they use can then be sustainable.

And with the CNY festivities coming around, voices urging to refrain from the the shark fins are heard more often. It was even brought up during one of the PAP platform. While the online version offers scant info, the full writeup in Straits Times only show how "politically correct" the two young PAPs were.

Shark's fin a matter of moral suasion




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