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Well I knew at that time
I had been in the business.

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I had sold oil
to the paper mills.

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I knew all the owners.
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I had been in politics.
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I knew the people
in the towns.

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I knew not one constituent
of the paper mills

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wanted to have
the river polluted.

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And yet here the river
was being polluted.

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And it was more or less as
if we created a doom machine.

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In our search for wealth
and for prosperity

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we created something that’s
going to destroy us.

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The traders who are
involved in the market

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are not guys
who are

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whose moral fibre
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when it comes to
environmental conditions

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are going to be
rattled at all

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They’re seeing dollars
and they’re making money.

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Brokers don’t stay away
from copper

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because it violates
their religious beliefs

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or your environmental
policies.

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No.
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There are times
when you think about it

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but it's fleeting.
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It really is
a fleeting moment.

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It's like yeah
oh yeah yeah

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well a town is being
polluted down there in Peru

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but hey this guy
needs to buy some copper.

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I’m getting paid
a commission too.

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Our information that we receive
does not include anything

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about the environmental
conditions

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because until
the environmental conditions

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become a commodity
themselves or are being traded

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then obviously we will not
have anything to do with that.

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It doesn’t come into
our psyche at all.

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It's so far away and
it's you hardly hear

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anything about it.
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I mean keep in mind there are
things going on right in our

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backyards for god sake.
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We trade live hogs.
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I mean there are so many pigs
in the state of Carolina

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and they’re
polluting the rivers

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but how often do you
find out about that?

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At Multinational Monitor
we’ve put together a list

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of the top corporate
criminals of the 1990s.

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We went back and looked at
all the criminal fines that


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