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| Ecoregion is critical since an export of exactly the same consumer good from one ecological region may be harmless or even constructive, while an export of the same good from another may be devastating, e.g. exporting water from arid regions versus those with icebergs, e.g. exporting pulp wood from tropical forests versus managed temperate tree farms, e.g. cattle living on former deforested rainforest land versus natural pasture. | | Ecoregion is critical since an export of exactly the same consumer good from one ecological region may be harmless or even constructive, while an export of the same good from another may be devastating, e.g. exporting water from arid regions versus those with icebergs, e.g. exporting pulp wood from tropical forests versus managed temperate tree farms, e.g. cattle living on former deforested rainforest land versus natural pasture. |
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| | All persons could have a double identity in consumerium. One of a [[employee]] (participating in an production process) and one of a [[consumer]] (participating in consumption). Some people have multiple jobs simultaneously and this must be taken into account. These different roles can be unconnectable or unified if the person desires so. |
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| : This type of control-freakish markup is shunned by many [[w:wikipedians|wikipedians]] for understandable reasons, where as [http://disinfopedia.org disinfopedians] and some [[w:NGO|NGO]]s like it.
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| : As for what I think is that this is way overkill for our purposes. [[Gender]], [[Birthyear]], [[Nationality]], [[Employer]], [[Profession]] and perhaps some contact info should be quite adequate for [[employee]]s, [[campaigner]]s and [[commentator]]s. [[w:Anonymous Coward|Anonymous Coward]]s can of course be dismissed as nobodys more easily then someone who has [[w:GnuPG|GnuPG]] or commercially signed identities. [[Consumer]]s naturally can reveal as little or much about themselves as they wish. --[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 23:21 Apr 15, 2003 (EEST)
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| ::However much or how little you record about a person, it would be useful to make sure that the tag-names don't conflict with more general uses. For instance Nationality can mean Birthplace, it can mean Citizenship, it can mean Ethnicity. So Nationality is a bad tag name. Employer? Some people have many, or none. Profession? Not standard across all countries, better to record degrees and certifications, say as Credential. And all can be multiple. And how to remain Anonymous while still revealing credentials, so called [[Blind Credential]] is very important.
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| :Good points above.
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| Identifying individual people unambiguously is more controversial, a two-edged sword. Some activists like [http://amnesty.org Amnesty] and [http://greenpeace.org Greenpeace] do it often, for what they consider clear moral purposes. Other projects like [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia] have less clear purposes and thus less excuse for "outing" or "shaming". This is not an easy issue for consumerium:
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| On the one hand certain individuals like [[person X]] and [[person Y]] are engaged in a vast number of unpopular activities, and many would choose to have nothing to do with an enterprise that they profited from. Being sure that the activity is associated with them is impossible without some clear way of identifying individuals and their interests - there is danger that innocents will be targetted if identification is not clear. On the other hand, there is reason to fear "witchhunts" and "dossiers" on ordinary individuals, and automation of person-tracking and identification certainly makes this easier.
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| However, some means of standardizing references to persons seems to be underway in some projects, e.g. wikipedia, anyway. Consumerium may not be able to igore them. There are also reasons to identify "noble" individuals for merit or recognition, e.g. [http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=James_Gustave_Gus_Speth disinfopedia's naming of reliable sources e.g. James Speth]. This can be important to validate information to be used in buying decisions, e.g. [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIPAESA as the 'authority' in TIPAESA structures].
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