As we hear everyday in the media; the globe is suffering from the pollution that we are causing. In particular the biggest countries seem to be the bad guys, which makes me proud to be from an entirely unimportant country like Denmark.
What does bother me is the lack of consequence that is behind the consumers of the world. How can we continue to support a country that advocates policies that have no good points to them? I have nothing as such against Chinese people – the ones I have met are hard working and very sympathetic – but I do have something against China and the fact that countries in the Western world continue to cooperate with a regime that is so blatantly against all that we believe in and all that we see as humane.
Not only is China one of the biggest – if not the biggest – polluter in the world, but they are also running a fascist dispassionate regime that would make even Hitler amazed!
Think of a few of the fantastic things about China:
- Number One polluter in the world
- No respect for human rights (one-child policy, killing of prisoners with bayonet instead of bullet to save money and to be able to reuse organs for transplantation are just examples)
- No respect for animal rights (for instance have a look here)
So why are we continuing to buy products marked with “Made in China”?
Is it because the left-wing romantics believe that China is a communist country?
Or is it because we are busy being anti-moslem and are under the idea that the Chinese are all Buddhist and that Buddhists are nice peace loving people that respect their women?
Or is it simply because we are following the “almighty buck”? Are we ourselves so dispassionate and ill-raised that we are not even considering the fact that by buying Chinese products we are supporting China and the regime that is ruling there? I believe it is time to start a liberal trade boycott of products produced in China until they have met certain goals on humanitarianism and pollution.
So where to start? Well, may I suggest we start with the ones that can take it. The ones that have big legal departments and lobbies in China. The ones that would be able to change governments and who should now step up to their new role in society.
I would call on the people to boycot IKEA (who almost entirely uses Chinese furniture) and H&M (who has more than 75% of their clothes tailored in China). These two Swedish giants (who pays little tax in Sweden as they are “headofficed” outside of Sweden) are living high on the Scandinavian image and telling us all how political correct they are. Democratic Furniture!! Right!
That shouldn’t be hard :o)
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