The environmental history of Latin America
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- Sustainability in Latin America becomes
- By Bjorn Stigson, Earth Times News Service, 2 January
1998. The capitalist assumptions that social wellbeing
results from a downward flow of wealth and that this
wealth arises from market competitiveness. Although this
implies eventual destruction of the environment, author
nevertheless suggests that a more efficient exploitation
of the environment is the answer and that a static
relation with the environment is somehow compatible with
the need for economic expansion.
- The Veins Opened by the North Haven't
- Néfer Muñoz, IPS, 24 March 2000. Latin America
should charge the industrialised North compensation for
the damages it has inflicted to the environment in the
region. Industrialised countries have exported enormous
amounts of raw materials from Latin America for many
years, without compensating for the environmental costs,
which exceed national indebtedness.
- Liberal Reforms Give Pollution a
- By Gustavo Gonzálezm, IPS, 27 July 2000. Liberal
economic reforms implemented throughout Latin America in
the 1980s and 1990s have worsened industrial pollution in
the region. Exports are a determining factor in the
environmental impacts of economic reforms initiated in
recent decades, which were based on trade liberalisation,
floating prices and incentives for foreign investors.