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This property staked out by 'IN ALL HONESTY'!- We're from Eastern Canada. We are deeply interested in politics, media studies, sustainable economic/environmental development, justice, and the alternative press. We also fight to end racism, sexism, and all of the other isms which take away the strengths, potentials, and spirits of all people. We believe God , is little interested in our efforts to defend racists, homophobes,sexists or any of the other hateful characters who walk the dark paths of this world. Their freedom to speak their profanities, their vulgarities, their blasphemies, is not in question. However speech may carry other consequences for the speaker who spreads hatred. Speech and Action are very different from each other. And sometimes you just have to line up the characters and look at what they're saying. | ||||||||||||||||
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We will be moving in with our musings shortly...Read every day!! Overview:Everywhere Nations are starting to see that their economic Futures and their Environmental futures are linked. This awareness is taking place p a i n f u l l y for many nations as they survey devastating social and environmental damages often sustained in their quest for economic progress.This paper explores the important role that international competitiveness plays between environmental issues and economic growth.In other words, the case is made that rather than a straight forward linkage between growth or �progress� as some refer to it, and the environment, we need to consider the long term, and we need to consider international competitevness, and the interplay between environmental sustainability, and international competitevness, and finally the effects they all have on economic growth.We need also to consider the relationships between countries. Some countries are in effect subsidizing their industries, with lax or unenforced environmental standards,(example, Mexico). The effect this has is to allow unfair competition,as factor endowment and productivity costs are lower in countries like Mexico. Long-run costs are much higher however, for the environmental maverick and for its neighbors near and far.The paper deals with �convergence phenomenon� which amounts to the evolution of a situation wherein the world is a whole lot smaller as we enter the new millennium. New communications and information technologies, make it so much of what one nation does affects other nations. Examples such as Chernobyl, the Exxon-Valdez disaster, and the ongoing annihilation of the Amazon rain forest, and its species are used to illustrate �convergence phenomenon�. Other examples of the formerly superheated economies of East Asia and China are used to reveal situations where extremely fast growth and material prosperity came at a cost of some of the world�s worst environmental degradation. This area boasts 9 0f the 15 cities with highest particulate air pollution in the world...quite a legacy to leave to the younger generation Much of the paper frames terms and issues which we�ve already discussed in class.Examples such as: the level of TFP (total factor productivity) = level of competitevness, which is closely correlated with the negative of unit cost of output, and the average level of ambient sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere,the negative of which is considered to be the level of a country�s environmental quality. Basically the argument is that those countries and areas with heavy concentrations of environmental degradation are already facing higher health and material hazards which is already affecting their international competitevness. Short-run increased costs to fix the problems, would result in long-run ncreased international competitevness, because in the long run, short-run costs would decrease because of lower production costs because of the absence of negative environmental impacts caused by poor environmental conditions. Conversely the political,social, psychological, and economic barriers which must be overcome,require dramatic increases in short-run production costs as nations opt for environmentally sustainable development in future projects, spend to repair existing damages and invest in infrastructure updates which will benefit future generations. The crucial point is that countries must endeavor to shift heir competitvness rightward on their tradeoff curve at the same time as they invest in environmental control. The most important and effective measures cited in this paper are:* Promotion of greater recycling initiaves based on the 3r�s.* Greater emphasis on resource management - conservation.* An optimal population and human resource policy. Calls for population growth management, and adequate funding for education and training. * Public-sector investment in construction and maintenence of physical infrastructure and social overhead capital. * Companies must bear social costs of the pollutants they discharge,so that these costs can be passed on to the consumer. * Issues of global property rights vs. private property ownership require tremendous work.* Policies of income redistribution must address problems of poverty, especially in the poorest of countries. * Policies especially in third world countries must address the very real environmental problems (climate, geography) which exist... a focus on rural development must be pursued. | ||||||||||||||||
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