Clandestine approch to Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) should concern libertarians

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hat little is publicly known about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) should be of immediate concern for those in the world with libertarian views.

Also, those of us concerned for the state of the world’s environment should be pressing for immediate disclosure of what the agreement really means and how its implementation will impact on the world’s resources and so its environment.

At bottom, the TPP appears to be unashamedly about profit; profit for the world’s corporations ahead of the vastly more important wellbeing of people, wherever they might be.

The TPP is not about the transparency that libertarians love, rather the secrecy upon which profits depend.

Alternet has argued that everything from increased fracking to tainted fish, the TPP could severely threaten environmental and climate policy.

The story - “5 Ways the Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Ruin the Environment” – gives us five reasons why we need to view the TPP with suspicion.