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Re: Human vs. natural influences on the environment



charliew wrote:
 
> A lot of environmental posters have the nasty tendency of
> only worrying about the variables that "prove" their point.

Do you suppose that there may be an "nasty" analogue in economics?

Why is there one standard for the "environmental posters" and
a different (perhaps opposite) standard for "economic posters"?

Jay
---
"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in
 the lowest wage country is impeccable...because foregone earnings
 from increased morbidity" are low. He adds that "the underpopulated
 countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted; their air quality is
 probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles...."
                  --World Bank's chief economist, Lawrence Summers
                                       The Economist, Feb. 8, 1992

These cold-blooded economic calculations expose a global system of
destruction where national borders and human lives are viewed only
as a footnote to the capitalist market.


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