I always viewed the state of nature as a direct result of my choices. Nature is a good mirror of our choices. To state the obvious only one factor controls everything including the economy, - what people are buying. Everything else is a subcategory.
Our $17 Trillion Economy (GDP) has 3 components
1) 71% Consumer spending (that’s you and me)
2) 20% Government spending
3) 9% Investment
Think you don’t matter? In 2008 spooked consumers decided to delay new car purchases.
Car sales plunged from about 16 million to 9 million. Buick, Oldsmobile Pontiac and Mercury disappeared. GM and Chrysler went bankrupt. GM sold Hummer to a Chinese company. Ford sold Land Rover and Jaguar to Tata an Indian company. A Chinese company bought Volvo. A Chinese-Swedish investment group bought Sabb and went out of business.You can see what happens when the consumer makes a decision about spending.
Point of sale terminals and online sales constantly track the slightest change in our spending and react instantly. No need to wait for legislation. When me and you stop buying something "it" stops being produced. When you examine any corporate behavior - way down at the bottom of their behavior is you and me and what we are buying.
So I am giving up Dawn detergent dish soap and switching to Dr Bonner. This requires me to bring baking soda and vinegar to cut grease on dishes (all of which are eatable and don't produce tumors). But I found they work better (especially in cold water) are cheaper, plus are not a threat to the water sources where I camp. Actually I feel like I gave up nothing and have a good feeling about it. Somewhere in Proctor and Gamble someone is trying to figure out how to lure me back as a customer. When they succeed they will be making frogs, salamanders, fish, turtles, aquatic plant life and my waterways happy too.
When doing my dishes I don't miss Dawns sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium laurethsulfate, c12-14-16 dimethyl amine oxide, SD alcohol, sodium chloride,PPG-26, pei-14 PEG-10/PPG-7 copolymer, cyclohexanediamine,phenoxyethanol, magnesium chloride, methylisothiazolinone, fragrance,yellow #5, blue #1 and the industries that produce that stuff. For me it was easy.
=Cosmo