Against unrestricted international trade

Against unrestricted international trade

I do not think that unrestricted international trade should be encouraged or allowed for a couple of reasons.   My main argument is environmentally-based.   I think most businesses are inherently greedy and evil and if left unrestricted will destroy our planet. The rain forests, for example, are being destroyed every day by greedy land owners and logging companies. I don’t think the US should buy lumber that has been harvested in the rainforest. “The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.”   http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm     I also don’t think the US should buy any products from China because that country has little or no environmental regulations.   They are beginning to try to regulate the pollutants that destroy the environment, but I think they have a long way to go.   http://www.chinaenvironmentallaw.com/  

The rainforest is one example of greedy companies destroying our planet and its beings. Another example, and a specific country from whom I do not think we should purchase goods, is Japan. Japan continues to destroy whales in the ocean and all for monetary gain. When the US purchases candles and oils, we are potentially purchasing remains of some poor whale cruelly murdered while minding its own business in the ocean. When we buy other (non-whale) imports from Japan, such as crude oil, textiles, computers, electronic components, fish and shells, and petroleum products, I think we are supporting their ecomony.   http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Major_import_and_export_products_of_japan&rtitle=What%20products%20do%20you%20import%20from%20Japan
(I don’t think we should import goods from Mexico because they have no regard for the lives of dolphins, killing many while fishing for tuna.)

Finally, I think that when we purchase imported...