{"id":318,"date":"2020-12-02T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/?p=318"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:34:02","slug":"unrequested-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/2020\/12\/02\/unrequested-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrequested post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>this is not my Unit 6 post<\/strong><\/span>. This is just me finding a place to share what I read.<\/p>\n<p>I read this in my econ class, and I got so frustrated. So, I decided to share it here, hoping that sharing it would help me deal with the emotions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The poorer countries of the world confront tragic choices. They cannot afford drinking water standards as high as those the industrial countries are accustomed to. They cannot afford to close their pristine areas to polluting industries that would introduce technical know-how and productive capital and that would earn urgently needed foreign exchange. They cannot afford to bar mining companies from their unexploited regions. Nor can they afford to impose antipollution requirements on these companies that are as strict and expensive as those in richer industrial countries. They should always realize that environmental protection measures are financed out of the stomachs of their own people; the multinationals cannot be made to pay for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Dorfman, \u201cAn Economist\u2019s View of Natural Resources and Environmental Problems,\u201d in Robert Repetto (ed.),\u00a0<span class=\"italic\">The Global Possible,<\/span>\u00a0Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1985, 67\u201376.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: this is not my Unit 6 post. This is just me finding a place to share what I read. I read this in my econ class, and I got so frustrated. So, I decided to share it here, hoping that sharing it would help me deal with the emotions. &#8220;The poorer countries of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/2020\/12\/02\/unrequested-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unrequested post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeklypost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fernanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}