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To: Moominoid who wrote (7171)	8/15/2001 2:53:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Hey, if it's global, it's global - no altruism involved here, there's no place to go to get away from it. Each country's contributions are only a fraction of the whole, but every reduction helps - assuming it's global. There's nothing to stop any country from cleaning up its own act. Yes, it will benefit others, but that's a side effect. If it's the right thing to do, then do it. Yes, the others will benefit without paying the cost, but do it anyway. Classic "free ride" problems are things like armies and levees - they can't protect just the people who paid for them. But when you are being attacked by an enemy army, or the river is flooding, you don't say "oh, forget about protecting ourselves because some people are getting a free ride and that's not fair."