Yoshie Furuhashi:
>
> Moreover, since environmental regulations are local, national, & at
> most regional (e.g., EU) affairs, capital can always displace &
> condense environmental harms onto the politico-economically weakest
> links, so long as a multitude of political entities are competing
> with one another for investment. Unless the world becomes one nation
> under the law with all its parts developed evenly to the same level,
> such competition won't disappear.
There is a huge array of international law and treaty agreement covering all
manner of environmental issues from whaling to controls of use of
ozone-eating CFC's to controls on dioxins, DDT, PCBs, to controls on
infectious disease vectors, to greenhouse gas emissions (Kyoto is only the
latest) and much else besides. This is not regional but international treaty
and covenantal law.
Mark Jones
