{"id":1615,"date":"2005-09-16T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/09\/16\/economic-issues-for-environmentalists\/"},"modified":"2005-09-16T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T13:47:00","slug":"economic-issues-for-environmentalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/economic-issues-for-environmentalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Issues for Environmentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ideopolis links<\/a> to an interesting new briefing paper<\/a> from the Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/a>. Titled “Four Economic Issues That Environmentalists Should Care About,” the paper argues that the following four economic issues have important environmental ramifications that receive little attention. The economic issues are:<\/p>\n 1. The energy consumption ramifications of choosing an American economic model over a European one. After reading the paper, I believe it brings up important ideas concerning items 1 and 3; items 2 and 4 are certainly important for environmentalists to consider, but I’m not convinced that this paper does an adequate job of spelling out the arguments in terms of environmental impact. For instance, I think it’s fairly obvious that the term “free trade” is little more than a marketing slogan, but what does that mean in terms of environmental impact, or the counterarguments that the environmental community needs to make on this issue? Similarly, I don’t think it’s enough to demonstrate that military spending may well create negative economic effects and use that as a parallel to spending on climate change — that seems like an approach that will set us up for an “apples and oranges” rebuttal — and little else. All of these issues need consideration, and I’ll be very interested to see what kinds of follow-up articles come from CEPR or other progressive think tanks.<\/p>\n Categories: environment<\/a>, economics<\/a>, trade<\/a>, population<\/a>, climate<\/a>, energy<\/a>, consumption<\/a>, America<\/a>, Europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ideopolis links to an interesting new briefing paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Titled “Four Economic Issues That Environmentalists Should Care About,” the paper argues that the [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
2. The language of free trade and free markets versus protectionism.
3. Falling birth rates in high-income countries.
4. The cost of reducing global climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n