Perhaps instead of foreign aid, what we need is a progressive tax on a world scale. Of course, then we'd need a world government. Of course, then we'd need a world government that's held responsible to (and is responsive to) the world's populace, as opposed to the current hemi-demi-semi-world government currently run by the US.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, ehrbar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Carrol, I don't think the slogan "Stop all foreign aid" is defensible. > Since the US has historically emitted a huge amount of CO2 into the > atmosphere, the US owes the developing nations a lot of aid to > compensate them for the cost of climate change and to help them pursue > a development path based on renewable energy. Almost nobody is > talking about this, this is not part of common consciousness. If the > Left promotes the slogan "Stop all foreign aid" they co-operate with > this conspiracy of silence and put themselves in opposition to the > necessities dictated by the present climate emergency. See The > Greenhouse Development Rights Framework: The Right to Development in a > Climate Constrained World (executive summary) at > http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/GDRs_ExecSummary.pdf > > Hans. > > Hans G. Ehrbar http://www.econ.utah.edu/~ehrbar [email protected] > Economics Department, University of Utah (801) 581 7797 (my office) > 1645 Campus Center Dr., Rm 308 (801) 581 7481 (econ office) > Salt Lake City UT 84112-9300 (801) 585 5649 (FAX) > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
