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All of these types of abuses, whether they're human rights abuses, or environmental crimes, stem from a core problem, which is a lack of governance at sea, especially on the high seas. Specifically, there are three ways in which misbehavior happens offshore routinely and with impunity: too few rules, a lack of enforcement, and insufficient awareness of what is happening there. All of these problems are also connected in the sense that they occur with a certain tacit complicity from all of us who live on land...
Ian Urbina
...as we become more alienated from the things we consume, especially while buying online, the out-of-sight,out-of-mind problem becomes more intense.
Ian Urbina
... Wage theft, the intentional dumping of oil, shark finning-in each of those categories you'll find people who are the culprits, but if you really try to understand what makes them tick, you'll see that they're pretty desperate characters who are victims themselves of a larger, screwed-up system...
Ian Urbina