if i only knew...

Here is an eye-opening article

Here is an eye-opening article if you're against fur (like i am) from the NY Times: "The unintended consequences of the war against fur have hurt the livelihoods of thousands of Canadian Natives, and have enticed them to replace their lost incomes by welcoming into unspoiled areas the oil, gas and mining interests they once opposed." It certainly puts things into another perspective but i still wonder what to do now?
A report comes to mind that i saw on CNN's Global Challenges last week about wildlife works, a business founded in San Francisco that saves the environment on another continent and turns a profit (they created a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya, put an eco-factory in there where the local residents - who were poaching the endangered animals before ww came - work on ww brand clothes that are sold in US stores and on the internet. Ideas like this would be the only solution to the problem, because surely, reversing everything and going back to making fur trendy to save native Canadians and their land from oil monopolies is not a very smart way to solve the problem.