:33:02
Monsanto settled
out of court
:33:04
paying $80 million
in damages.
:33:08
But it never
admitted guilt
:33:33
Sleeping in a motel
in Brewer Maine one night
:33:36
I woke up with
terrible hay fever
:33:38
and my eyes were burning.
:33:39
And I looked out
at the river
:33:41
and there were great
mounds of white foam
:33:43
going right
down the river.
:33:44
And the next morning
I got up and I said
:33:46
My God what was
that happening last night
:33:47
He said "Oh thats
just the river".
:33:49
And I said
"what do you mean?"
:33:49
He said "Well look every
night the paper company sends
:33:51
the stuff down the river."
:33:53
And I said "What are
you talking about?"
:33:55
And he said "Dont
you understand?"
:33:56
"That show we get rid of the
effluent from the paper mills."
:34:00
Well I knew at that time
I had been in the business.
:34:02
I had sold oil
to the paper mills.
:34:04
I knew all the owners.
:34:05
I had been in politics.
:34:06
I knew the people
in the towns.
:34:08
I knew not one constituent
of the paper mills
:34:11
wanted to have
the river polluted.
:34:13
And yet here the river
was being polluted.
:34:15
And it was more or less as
if we created a doom machine.
:34:19
In our search for wealth
and for prosperity
:34:22
we created something thats
going to destroy us.
:34:32
The traders who are
involved in the market
:34:34
are not guys
who are
:34:36
whose moral fibre
:34:37
when it comes to
environmental conditions
:34:39
are going to be
rattled at all
:34:42
Theyre seeing dollars
and theyre making money.
:34:44
Brokers dont stay away
from copper
:34:47
because it violates
their religious beliefs
:34:49
or your environmental
policies.
:34:52
No.
:34:53
There are times
when you think about it
:34:55
but it's fleeting.
:34:58
It really is
a fleeting moment.
:34:59
It's like yeah
oh yeah yeah