Full Quiver wrote:Is anyone here a greenie
I think we're all whities here.
or a global warming advocate?
Please give global warming a helping hand.
If so, do you buy American made products only or do you buy from highly polluting countries like China?
People who are concerned with pollution in China should buy as many Chinese products as possible. History shows, and economic theory confirms, that pollution increases during industrialization and then pollution decreases as a function of the wealth created from that industrialization. Pollution is a product of wealth building, and wealth, in turn, enables the spending that is required to reduce pollution. As people become wealthy, they put a greater premium on quality of life and begin to fund the reduction and control of pollution.
The result is a parabola also called the
Environmental Kuznets Curve: "In a developing industrial economy, little weight is given to environmental concerns, raising environmental pollution byproducts. After attaining a certain standard of living from the industrial production system and when environmental pollution is at its greatest, the focus changes from self-interest to social interest. The interests give greater weight to a clean environment by reducing and reversing the environmental pollution trend from industrialization."
It makes economic sense, it's what happened in America, and I've read it's what happens generally within industrializing countries.
