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I Was Wrong About Trade

George Monbiot · 24 Jun 2003

A change of mind in this piece

Localisation - producing locally everything that can be produced locally - is the right answer to unjust global trade.

Recalls holdingThe only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.

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    Localisation - producing locally everything that can be produced locally - is the right answer to unjust global trade.

    Recalls holdingThe only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.
    Their words nowMy conversion came on the day I heard a speaker demand a cessation of most forms of international trade and then, in answering a question from the audience, condemn the economic sanctions on Iraq.

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