Friday, January 11, 2008

A Green Economy vs. China's Industrialization

As reported by ENN yesterday, green businesses and sustainability measures are developing rapidly because they make ecological sense and they make or save money.

"Adam Smith, Meet Mother Earth" link: http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/29016

In contrast, China, as the long article in Mother Jones relates, is an economic powerhouse, but the externalities that the market doesn't account for are reducing or destroying the economic boom that the country is under.

"The Last Empire: China's Pollution Problem Goes Global" link: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html

Somehow, China and India and other developing countries need to be shown how to do it right. And America and other countries can show them the way.

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