More on consumer activism

This article illuminates more of the reasons why I have problems with "consumer activism," as I like to call it... It allows people to feel good about doing something small (often by doing something they would do anyway, like buying bottled water or clothing) without causing any meaningful, lasting change. Instead, the historical as well as existing political and economic conditions leading to many of Haiti's problems (or the water crisis, or insert cause here) are ignored and obscured.