Comments on: Wilfred Beckerman: Radical Environmentalism Hurts the Third World

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:42:11 +0000

This article does not mention how corporations are responsible for destroying the land and water that indigenous communities depend on for their own survival. The real problem is the insensitivity and lack of respect of “advanced countries” for indigenous cultures. This is an article that makes poverty a fault of the people that are usually the victims of corporate and government greed.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:07:11 +0000

This article is so ignorant of how important the healthy condition of land and water is to the survival of people that do not care to live in the modern self destructive world but in a productive community that can support itself by growing their own food and providing their own water. This article is a personal opinion of the author not based knowledgeable research and interviews of the actual indigenous people being discussed. Certainly not the ones I know.

By: Wilfred Beckerman: Radical Environmentalism Hurts the Third World | JunkScience.com

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:39:44 +0000

[...] Wilfred Beckerman: Radical Environmentalism Hurts the Third World – In the richer countries of the world, it is at least understandable that important sections of the community should question whether priority should be given to further increases in the output of goods and services. But for the vast majority of the world’s population it does not require much imagination of knowledge of their terrible poverty to rule out the question of whether further economic growth is desirable for them. Nevertheless, it is often argued that the developing countries should not make the same “mistakes” as were made by the now advanced countries. They are advised not to pursue economic growth in spite of its adverse social or environmental effects, and not to fall into the trap of “rising expectations.” Furthermore, we often hear that if the developing countries seek to achieve standards of living comparable with those now enjoyed by the advanced countries there simply will not be enough resources to go around. [...]