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- From: gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: The Criterion for Ecocentrism
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- Message-ID: <722401100snx@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <1992Nov21.012848.24173@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 02:58:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.012848.24173@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP writes:
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- > The people of NYC have several alternative strategies to deal with this
- > type of situation. If they value clean air highly, they can boycott your
- > facility, depriving it of things to burn. If you persist and import waste
- > to burn, they can offer a subsidized clean disposal facility to *compete*
- > against you at rates that would be ruinous for your business. They don't
- > even have to locate this facility near yours, or use incineration. As
- > long as the waste is disposed of, you're out of business. Lastly, they
- > could simply buy you out, but that would be undesirable since it would
- > encourage others to emulate you. That's market action at work. If there's
- > a need for an incineration facility, somebody will supply it, and if it
- > isn't clean enough, somebody else can go into competition with a cleaner
- > one at a clean air subsidy.
-
- I agree with you here, Gary, except that perhaps what you refer to as
- "market action" is the very same process others are referring to as
- "collective action". If the empirically identifiable processes are the
- same, such that each contributor to the discussion is actually talking
- about the same real social dynamics as everyone else, any differences
- are merely putative, yes?
-
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