Costa Rica charges for pollution and rewards support for the environment. Result? 100% MORE forest than 20 years ago, less pollution, less poverty, no oil drilling, green energy from wind, hydro and geothermal. now, was that really so hard? |
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Costa Rica charges for pollution and rewards support for the environment. Result? 100% MORE forest than 20 years ago, less pollution, less poverty, no oil drilling, green energy from wind, hydro and geothermal. now, was that really so hard? |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)
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