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I stand convicted by me, myself, alone, and not by anyone else, as a plunderer of the earth….By our civilization’s definition, I am a captain of industry…. It (the market) will allow the externalization of any cost that an unwary, uncaring, or gullible public will permit to be externalized–caveat emptor in a perverse kind of way. My God! Am I thief, too?

–Ray Anderson, 1998
Cartoon by Herblock 1977