As if things weren't bad enough in Africa
Jun. 11th, 2005 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeRemember Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, the one who made the comment about women's aptitude for the sciences? Well, back when he was chief economist for the World Bank, he "argued that it is better policy to pollute areas where poor people live, because wages are lower and therefore the costs arising out of death and illness would be lower; and furthermore, that countries in Africa are underpolluted because they have clean air which is not being used to assimilate wastes." Underpolluted!
Source: Arran E. Gare, Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis. London and NY: Routledge. 1995. p.78. As his source, Gare gives, "From a leaked document reported in the New Scientist, February, 1992." My guess is that this is the document in question.
This evening we watched Willow. It had been a long time!
Source: Arran E. Gare, Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis. London and NY: Routledge. 1995. p.78. As his source, Gare gives, "From a leaked document reported in the New Scientist, February, 1992." My guess is that this is the document in question.
This evening we watched Willow. It had been a long time!