Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising. EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from the
perspective of the coal miners.
Here is a real and serious environmental problem. The corporations will
make out with their emissions trading and the workers will be left in
the cold. I recall driving through W. Virginia during the 1960s, seeing
coal miners on the porch with no alternatives. Their homes had no value
since no alternative jobs existed. To move would entail a serious
capital loss.
[Think of Andrew Oswald's interesting note in the Journal of Economic
Perspectives.]
What would the miners have as an alternative? Yet, as they stand, the
coal industry can self-rightously argue about their great concern for
the welfare of their workers. In effect, they become the hostages for
the anti-greens.
If David Harvey is trying to work through such complexities, then his
work will be invaluable. If he is doing no more than Louis reported,
then it is a shame.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
