...pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount of health impairing pollution should...country is impeccable and we should face up to that. 29 port, electrical generation) and that the unit transport costs of solid waste are so high prevent...

...Lawrence Summers, argued that toxic pollution should be located in poor countries. He boldly stated "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."40 The thread of racism is implicit...

...because the social costs of such pollution an based on lost earnings from increased death and disease. "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is hnpfrrable and we should face up to it,* he wrote. Pulled out of the larger memo and circulated like...

...report on prospects for the global economy, the statement said. The Economist quoted the memo as saying: "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that." The demand for a clean environment...

...misconceptions it may have generated,11 the bank said. The Economist quoted the memo as saying: ••! think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that." The demand for a clean environment...

...communities and the history of excluding people of color from the leadership of the environmental movement. The economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable, and we should face up to that.. . . I've always thought that under-populated...

...dump toxic wastes, let's do it where those hurt by the dumping are not as productive. As Summers says, "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load...country is impeccable and we should face up to that" Of course, the history of imperial domination and colonial and neo-colonial status, as well as the...

...arising from increased illness and death are lowest in the poorest countries. Summers thinks "that the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic...country is impeccable, and we should face up to that." Secondly, since in large parts of the Third World, pollution is still low, it makes economic sense...

...of pollution than that lost through the death of a worker in the United States or Switzerland. Thus, "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic...wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."9 There was a second reason, Summers continued with the same implacable logic: environmentally...

...language used is as extraordinary as the policies being proposed. The memo actually contains such words as "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that," "I've always thought that underpopulated...