Scandinavia, the U.S. and the environment (guess who's not on top)

[ThaSaltCracka]

where the hell did this come from? someone must have been bored.......
BTW, Taxman I have been meaning to say, welcome back, you took a quite a break from the boards.

[Koller]

Finland 73.9....USA 53.2

social- democratic economy 73.9....Hard line capitalism 53.2

[vulturesrow]

I was pretty bored last night so I actually read through all the ESI stuff. Some of the metrics that they use to measure ecnomic sustainibility are borderline ridiculous, at least in my opinion. I encourage people to download the reports and see what they think for themselves before blindly accepting the results of this index.

As an aside, it is very difficult to have any sort of environmental policy in a society with a poor economy. Why is that? In essence, concern for the environment is a luxury good. So it follows that a society with a strong economy is one that can afford to use a percentage of their income to protect the environment. This is Economics 101 here. So the fact that ESI folks are suggesting that their is no correlation between GDP and environmental quality, is on its face ridiculous.

[superleeds]

So when the earth starts to sink in it's own [censored] you'll be able to point fingers and carry on the great American tradition - It's not my fault.