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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
No idea, but it’s great that many of y’all and us are doing this. Buy local, buy from worker co-ops, buy from ethical countries!
I use Buybeaver, to boycot the US and the like. Generally I exclude Russia & Belarus, most of the Middle East (Israel included), and North & Middle Africa.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 week ago
What countries are ethical??
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, New Zealand, Slovenia, to name a few.
I’d at the very least exclude these;
There’s probably a lot more, but yeah.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Sweden is swinging to fascism, and they have the largest arms industry per capita in the world. They literally profit from unethical wars.
Norway is drilling and exporting oil, which is profiting from mass extinction and one of the biggest existential threats to most life on earth.
Canada usually joins the US in their unethical wars for oil. Also, their tar sands project in Alberta is one of the most ecologically devistating projects on the planet. And also profiting from contributing to the climate catastrophe.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Counterpoints;
Sweden has a Nordic model, Norway has been moving away aplenty from oil (most of its vehicles drive electric now and energy production is largely renewables), Belgium’s wealth is no longer built upon that.
What countries in your perspective, would be ethical? And don’t say “none”, just say closest to ethical in that case.