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To: greenspirit who wrote (11407)	7/18/1997 7:09:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	of 108807

I didn't mean to imply a 1:1 relationship between environmentalism and lending credence to global warming. They're arguable separately. I do not believe that promoting wide-open free-mkt economies in the Third World is an unqualified good idea. Look at Brazil; those folks are fouling the nest bigtime because it's cheap&legal to do so. So for me, it's not so simple. At the national level, environmental consideration needs to be supported by taxes and fines until the public voice matches the industrial interests in clout. Without Gov't regulation of any sort, what's the percentage for a corporation in an undeveloped country to use clean tech when old dirty tech lowers the cost of doing business? The developed world has a public that's convinced the legislators to persuade the big firms to get clean. Chemical companies in the West are outstandingly clean because to do otherwise has become expensive. Similar companies in the old Soviet or Chinese sphere are appallingly filthy because there's no cost pressure to upgrade to nicer processes. I guess I feel that we can't wait for global prosperity to provide a literate cosmopolitan population which then pushes for clean-air (water, land) regs. Because imho attaining global prosperity using current-third world tech will wear this place out before we reach the point of positive returns on economically-driven industrial table manners. While I'm a firm believer that in time we will have very high, very clean technology, it remains the province of the rich. We the rich cannot be hypocrites and import cheap goods from messy economies while fussing over our own diminishing wilderness. We need to somehow make it worth their while for economic partners in environmentally challenged parts of the world to pay for cleaner industry. How to do this, I don't know. But a balance needs to be struck between the Wall Streets and the Sierra Clubs of this world.

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