On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:37 -0700, Harry Pollard wrote: > Drop all our import restrictions except health and safety stuff.
What about environmental elements? It is increasingly clear that environmental impact isn't a local issue, but one that affects everyone globally. Corporates are already cheating hard enough with regard to those costs via "globalisation". Where exceptions are to be made, they must be made as globally conceded "licences", for example giving some developing areas a break for a few years. That might work as well as tarrif breaks to boost initial development. As would getting large corporations to butt out of buying up everything in sight, choking off indigenous development. This won't be bad for them necessarily. If they can be sticked hard enough they could leapfrog energy inefficient polluting technologies straight into developing tech that will be much more sustainable. No need to recapitulate the sorry ontogeny of the old industrial revolution, surely? _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
