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WHO are the shady, money-grubbing profiteers who own the multinational
companies that pollute rivers, damage the environment, exploit the poor, and
invent dubious drugs or risky genetically manipulated organisms? Or who back
pointless inventions while the really big one gets away? Well, er, it’s probably
me and you—or if you’re very young, your parents.

Can’t be true, I hear you say. But have you any idea how much our collective
savings are worth? Do you know which companies your pensions and savings are
invested in? Do you tell your trustees or savings companies about the
scientific, social or environmental…

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