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Re: [Pen-l] Environmental Kuznets curves in NY Times



On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the New York Times yesterday and again today a columnist and blogger,
> John Tierney has advanced the argument that "richer is better" for the
> environment.  His argument is that richer countries have the resources to
> devote to cleaning up their environmental damage and to obviate more damage.


More precisely, the richer countries have the resources to clean up
their damage and obviate the consequences to THEIR CITIZENS mostly by
dumping their pollution onto the poorer countries and continue
polluting on a grander scale than before.
-raghu.


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milli-helen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
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