Europe’s Hypocrisy: Shipping Banned Pesticides to the Global South

If you can’t sell them at home, sell them abroad.

Gil Pires
Climate Conscious
Published in
5 min readDec 26, 2023

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Guatuso, Costa Rica by Jancy Barahona on Unsplash (2020).

Water tanks travel back and forth in Costa Rica, rushing to supply the towns of Cartago with clean water. There is little else to do, ever since the Government found out local water sources are contaminated with European pesticides.

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