China’s pollution and sweatshops revisited

Two recommended articles, both from New York Times:

(1) China’s burning of coal casts a global cloud

China’s increasing pollution due to use of coal in generating electricity  has become a global problem as the West Coast states of the U.S. also suffer from polluted dusts that can move thousands of miles across Pacific Ocean . At the end of the article, however, the reports also remind us that an average American still consumes more energy and is responsible for the release of 10 times as much carbon dioxide as the average Chinese, and thus it is still not time for finger-pointing.

(2) In praise of the maligned sweatshop

Nicholas Kristof tells us why students campaigning to boycott “sweatshops” in developing countries, however well-meaning they are,  are actually harming poor people badly, and why students should actually campaign  for more “sweatshops”.

Without sweatshops, poor people won’t be exploited. It is true, because they starve and die instead! which some self-righteous students don’t care about any way.

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[ajit]

This is from African Development Bank

www.afdb.org/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADB_ADMIN_PG/DOCUMENTS/ECONOMICSANDRESEARCH/ERWP_77_0.PDF

Warm regards