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To: AC Flyer who wrote (16057)	3/3/2002 7:39:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<...there are two types of empirical studies that have been done repeatedly on the question of national income and environmental quality: (1) time series studies, which correlate the emission of various industrial pollutants with (usually) per capita income over time for a single country, and (2) cross-country trials, which correlate industrial pollution with per capita income across countries.> Rich people don't like living in crap. Neither do poor people. Rich people can afford to buy a flash sewerage system. Poor people can't. Rich people buy new, clean cars. Poor people buy second-hand diesel vans. Rich people have good stuff. Poor people make do with fixing up the old junk, getting by with the old stuff, tolerating muck they can't afford to dispose of. There's no fancy research needed. I've been at both ends of the scene. I've dug holes in the ground as toilets. I've sucked barley-sugar lollies to help overcome the stench in long-drop dunnies. I've sat on a gold-plated throne in the Sheraton in Gothenburg, with TV in the bathroom to boot. It's simple. People prefer clean. That goes for the air they breathe, the food they eat and everything else. Rich people vote for cleaner air and other restrictions on pollution. Poor people don't vote for cleaner air because buying a new tuk-tuk with a gas-turbine hybrid fuel-cell will cost them umpteen years of work and tomorrow they need to buy more food for their family. Raymond is full of it. I bet he'd solve the "problem" of too many people in the same way Scott suggested, namely, involuntary euthanasia of people they don't like [though Scott was joking - I think]. Raymond has learned some big words but that hasn't improved his thinking ability. We saw from Lenin, Stalin and Mao how people like Raymond solve problems. Mq