All true. Just don't forget that Joe is complicit each time he chooses that "roll-back" at Walmart and saves a buck over the more responsibly produced item(1).
(1) Of course you could argue that Joe can't tell the difference and is too bad off financially for it to matter anyway.
We're just as much to blame every time we whip out or iPhone -- (http://www.cnet.com/news/riots-suicides-and-other-issues-in-...) not only involves working conditions so bad that people are driven to literally jump off the roof of the building so frequently that managers placed a net down, but the production of semi-conductors involves tons of rare-earth metals like yttrium.
One could argue a cabin-style zero-impact lifestyle would be the ethically sound thing to do, but the land you purchase to till was the result of systemic genocide and internment of tons of Native Americans (modern estimates between 76 million down to less than a quarter million over 4 centuries - obviously not all by the sword but those are still Stalin-esque numbers) over the course of a few centuries which makes the loss WW2 genocide look like a joke.
I really can't blame China for doing what any nation does as they progress into an industrialized 'first world' society. Travesties occur on all sorts of level in the pursuit of 'national progress' set by the agenda of a few tens of thousands of people. The populace isn't any more guilty than you and I are of the half a million deaths in Iraq. And I don't think those who are polluting are doing anything different than what the US did as we Manifest-Destiny'd our way through the country, reaping coal, oil, timber, tobacco, and cotton, without which our nation wouldn't have had the funding to progress into what we are (for better or worse..)
But it's not clear that the suicide rate is higher than the rest of the population.
> so frequently that managers placed a net down
That's a good thing. Restricting access to means and methods is a mainstream bit of suicide prevention. For tall buildings this means putting the telephone number for suicide prevention helplines around, and putting fences up, and installing nets if fences can't be put in place.
Of course, that's only the beginning, so if you're complaining that that's all they do then I agree, they need to do more.
But putting nets up is more than many places do. How many multistory car parks do you see that have easy access - no fencing, no netting?
(1) Of course you could argue that Joe can't tell the difference and is too bad off financially for it to matter anyway.