Comments on: Rich Nations’ Environmental Damage to Third-World Countries Costs Them More Than Foreign Debt http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/01/rich-nations-environmental-damage-costs.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:18:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/01/rich-nations-environmental-damage-costs.html#comment-3215 Anonymous Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/01/rich-nations-environmental-damage-to-third-world-countries-costs-them-more-than-foreign-debt/#comment-3215 "<b>At least to some extent</b>, the rich nations have developed at the expense of the poor and, <b>in effect</b>, there is a debt to the poor," said coauthor Richard B. Norgaard, an ecological economist and UC Berkeley professor of energy and resources. "That, <b>perhaps</b>, is one reason that they are poor. You don't see it until you do the kind of accounting that we do here."<br/><br/>If this is the kind of cottonmouth talk we get from the good guys I suppose we might just as well pack it in.<br/><br/>I would suggest that these no balls wonders take a lesson from George Orwell on the dangers of watered down speech.<br/><br/>I understand that these academics spend much time licking the back sides of granting agencies so talking straight turkey isn't a habit. “At least to some extent, the rich nations have developed at the expense of the poor and, in effect, there is a debt to the poor,” said coauthor Richard B. Norgaard, an ecological economist and UC Berkeley professor of energy and resources. “That, perhaps, is one reason that they are poor. You don’t see it until you do the kind of accounting that we do here.”

If this is the kind of cottonmouth talk we get from the good guys I suppose we might just as well pack it in.

I would suggest that these no balls wonders take a lesson from George Orwell on the dangers of watered down speech.

I understand that these academics spend much time licking the back sides of granting agencies so talking straight turkey isn’t a habit.

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