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@pascalo
yep. that and and all the other atrocities we see everywhere in the world. Like people wading through chemicals without protection, or disassembling ships bare feet and without protection goggles, the whole body covered in toxic waste and oil ... that's just a couple of things that go through my mind.
Interestingly I heard some debate about wether it's better / more ethical to buy fairtrade from africa to support 3rd world economy or to use local produce to avoid green house gasses.
Just another point that illustrates that to make the right consumer choice is a really really hard thing to do.
I think I read some article once of a business analyst on the worlds problems and how to fix them by prioritizing them and then work through the list.
Malaria, AIDS and world poverty came on top, if I recall right, and somewhere down the line there was carbon footprint and global warming.
He argued that less poverty = less cooking with wood fire, less burining tropical rain forest and so on. Seemed logic to me at the time. I'll try and dig out a link for this.