I gave this some thought about 10 years ago. I went around our house and looked at the place of origin of a lot of stuff in our house, and then thought about what went into the development of those products from both a natural and human resource point of view. I became a label reader after that exercise and try to buy stuff with at least a little consideration of the resource exploitation that went into it, as well as consideration of the political regime(s) involved. You can never sort all of this out and buy wholly ethical stuff, but you can make improvements.
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