Sue Baumgardt is right about the rampant commercialism of our current financial system and its environmental and cultural costs (Letters, December 10).
We are told to spend, spend, spend with little regard to how goods are produced, for example in a sweat-shop conditions by an underpaid person in a developing country so we can buy them cheaply here only to throw them away a few months later.
Meanwhile, in many poor countries the rise in food prices is literally a matter of life and death.
US and European governments have managed to find around $3 trillion to bail out banks but have failed to live up to their promises to pay a fraction of that amount to make poverty history.
We need a new kind of globalisation that does not exploit people. That is why the World Development Movement Brighton and Hove held a vigil by the Clock Tower on Thursday to stand up and call time on global greed and to show solidarity with the world’s poor.
Eddy Richardson, The Broyle, Ringmer
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