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...shoulders and feel at most a moment of fleeting pity. But only a moment. After all, those workers must be half a world away, working in a exotic land for a few dollars a day. But the folks Levi's intends to eliminate are not toiling away in some southeast Asian sweatshop. They're Americans, like us. Now our moment of fleeting pity escalates into a moment of fleeting concern. Americans they may be, we comfort ourselves, but they probably work in some forsaken Pennsylvania factory and wear shirts with their names embroidered in cursive above the breast pocket...
...front teeth suggest anything. Their skill in making tools was limited: a flaked stone or a crude ax was probably as good as it got. They arose in Africa about 1.8 million years ago and later ranged over an impressive expanse of land that included the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and possibly Europe. But Homo erectus was no match for our species, the glamorous Homo sapiens, and not long after anatomically modern humans appeared some 200,000 years ago, the more primitive hominid died...
Burma, a country of about 45 million between Thailand and India in southeast Asia, has been under military rule for the past 34 years. The present military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), killed an estimated 10,000 nonviolent democracy demonstrators when it came to power in 1988. The SLORC has been repeatedly condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Australia for its rampant human rights abuses and is widely considered one of the most oppressive regimes in the world...
Much like the Ecuadorian Amazon, the area of Burma across which the pipelines cut is biologically rich and home to many disenfranchised ethnic minority groups. The Tenasserim rain forest is the largest intact rain forest in southeast Asia, home to such endangered species as the white rhinoceros and the tiger. Texaco's track record in Ecuador demonstrates that the corporation is not likely to be a good environmental steward; no independent environmental impact assessments have been conducted in the pipeline region...
...pipelines will also pass through areas traditionally controlled by the Karen and Mon minority groups, both of which have denounced the project. One recent report by the Thailand-based EarthRights International and Southeast Asian Information Network suggests that the SLORC's persecution of the ethnic minorities might put the environment at further risk, using "such environmental harms as watershed destruction and deforestation as strategic tools by which to further disempower opponents of the regime...