Interesting. I wonder how the top ten would have ranked during the
industrial revolution. It seems to me that the US's growing economy and
Vietnam's, or Madagascar's, are apples-to-oranges comparisons.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, J.D. Giorgis wrote:
> Surprise! The US is one of the ten best nations in
> the world at balancing economic growth and the
> environment.
>
> from: www.unfoundation.org
> RATINGS: New Index Ranks Countries On Environmental
> Performance
>
> A new system to rate countries' contributions to
> environmental sustainability will be presented next
> month to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in
> Davos, Switzerland.
> The environmental sustainability index, created
> by the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of
> Tomorrow, ranks how successful economies are at
> growing without violating critical environmental
> standards.
> According to the index, the 10 best performers,
> in descending order, are: Norway, Finland, Canada,
> Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, the
> United States and the Netherlands.
> The 10 worst performers, in ascending order, are:
> Madagascar, Bangladesh, Uganda, Nigeria, Iran,
> Vietnam, Malawi, Senegal, Singapore and Algeria.
> According to Kim Samuel-Johnson, chair of the
> Global Leaders of Tomorrow's Environment Task Force,
> "the bad news is that ... many nations have a lot of
> work to do. The good news is that a clean environment
> may not have to come at the expense of economic
> competitiveness" (Kim Samuel-Johnson, Newsweek, Dec
> 2000-Feb 2001).
> (Back to Contents)
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