Kelly says:
> when it comes to pollution caps, environmental controls, waste water
> treatment facilities, and the skills, education and abilities to take care of
> our resources.
While this MAY be true, there is still the matter of numbers. If 300
million people, for instance, scattered widely over a large area consume
and throw away much more per capita than fewer people more concentrated
in a smaller area, then while there may be laws that wok in the first
option, their impact can still be greater than that in the third world
(per capita).
And don't forget, much of the Third World is third because of the first
world exploitation. So, you can find directional causal links from
First World riches to Third World squalor (where it exists - here in
Brazil there is probably not much more "squalor" than in the USA) or
poverty, but you can certainly not blame the poor in the Third World for
the riches in the first!
Jim
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