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- From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152703.18186@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:27:03 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: The Criterion for Ecocentrism
- Summary:
- References: <1dmfrvINNha9@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov10.021224.10985@vexcel.com> <1992Nov13.061824.8598@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov13.061824.8598@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >It depends on how badly that one person wants the resource and how strongly
- >other individuals want to preserve it. That's where the market can set a
- >quanitative valuation. If 100 million people want to preserve a resource,
- >but are only willing to spend a penny each to do so, and one individual
- >is willing to expend 10 million and *one* dollars to use the resource,
- >then the market says that his voice wins the decision.
-
- So, if I decide to build a waste incinerator upwind of New York City, and
- I live in oh, say, Denver, I should be allowed to feed the waste stream into
- my cheap furnace and dump the toxics into the air? Unless of course, the
- good people of NYC want to protect their clean air and *pay* for a high-
- tech furnace that doesn't emit significant toxics? And, hey, suppose I
- just don't _want_ one of them new-fangled devices that always break down -
- that 40's vintage stuff works just fine, thank you very much, but I'll
- pass on your kind offer?
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- ...Dale Cook "I don't much care how a man prays -- there's plenty of
- room in hell for all of us." --- "Mad Jack" Duncan
- The opinions are mine only (i.e., they are NOT my employer's)
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