Dear Mr. Corporate Giant:
I’m a consumer. I drive a car, own a TV, a home, a dishwasher, washer and dryer, the usual and have a job that I must drive to every workday, a distance of some seventeen miles one way. I’m also a conscientious consumer and as such, I’m angry; very angry! Why am I angry, you ask? After all, I’m pretty much living the American dream. I’m damned mad because I have trusted and been deceived.
For decades I have trusted the makers, the manufacturers of all that I enjoy that they would provide me with these time and effort saving devices (for which I have given them most of my money) in a careful and thoughtful manner; not raping, pillaging, and polluting the air and land that we depend on for basic life just to make their millions. I would have happily paid more, if that’s what it took just to keep from living in their cesspool of waste that they’ve left behind.
I did not want cheap tomatoes and lettuce at the cost of polluting the ground water, drying up the rivers, and killing all the fish.
I did not want cheap electricity at the cost of eradicating the salmon, contaminating the air, or blocking the water flow and eliminating nature’s water filters in our wetlands.
I did not want comfortable and inexpensive transportation at the cost of polluting the air that I breathe and contaminating the soils and streams.
Neither did I want cheap synthetics and plastics in my clothing and food containers at the risk of exposure to toxins and potential development of life-threatening cancers.
After these decades of deception, I am now left with the dubious task of sorting out who among you I can trust and which of your products I can use in good conscience. It’s an extremely tough job and I want you to know I resent the hell out of this! I trusted you and you betrayed me, Mr. Big Shot! You have caused all of us to become dependent on this lifestyle.
If you want my dollars in the future, give me what I want at an environmental price that I’m willing to pay which is ‘zero’ adverse affect on the environment or you will be boycotted!
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