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How financial dependence silences environmental witnesses

I discovered my company is dumping chemicals in the river and I want to be a whistleblower but my husband just got laid off and we need my income.

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Your ability to protect the commons is constrained by private need, forcing you to choose between collective welfare and family survival.

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