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by anoncoward111 2905 days ago
The problems you have listed would immediately cease if US and Chinese corporations had any ethics whatsoever.

Obesity is caused by stress eating, cheap junk food, marketing, and a sedentary lifestyle due to a desk job. 2 billion people in South/East/SouthEast Asia live long lives because they are outside the influence of the Western diet.

When you say drugs, I dont know if you mean medicine or heroin. Most medicine is cheap. Pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies hold a cartel over its pricing. As for illegal drugs, decriminalize it like portugal and your problems will cease.

Climate change should be obvious. If everyone stopped consuming the wasteful products US corps market as disposable (gas, cars, meat, etc), we would cut our greenhouse emissions overnight.

All of these problems would end if corporations were somehow forced to stop. I doubt anyone will ever acquire the political momentum to do that.