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Saving the Environment Through Restructuring Taxes |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Nanda R. Shrestha |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 3,012 Words, 19,682 Characters |
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THE NATURAL WEALTH OF NATIONS: HARNESSING THE MARKET FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
By David Malin Roodman.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series, 1998; 304 pp., paper, $13.00.
Here we go again--one more vote for market theocracy! This time the vote is cast in the name of healing environmental woes that loom ominously over the future of what we today call the global economy, an ephemeral term that nicely hides its rapacious roots in the colonial order. There is little doubt that the rise of the voracious industrial economy after the mid-eighteenth century sowed the seeds of environmental degradation, not just in a few selected countries, but across the globe. It is precisely the fruit of this seed that has now gotten out of control as the environmental cris...
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