What is an economic policy or practice that impedes sustainable resource use?
Question by ~* Petite Choupette*~: What is an economic policy or practice that impedes sustainable resource use?
I thought of solar rebates as an example of one that facilitates sustainability, now I need a practice that impedes it. Thanks in advance.
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There is hardly one that does not:
http://dieoff.org/page110.htm
– encouraging private houses in suburbs instead of apartments in cities (tax deductions on mortgage interest payments, Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deduction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae
– building more and wider roads
http://www.foe.org/economic_stimulus/climate-impacts.html
– subsidies to agriculture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_States
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/subsidies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy_of_the_United_States
– using flush toilets
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~liz/waste.html
– even using toilet paper and tissues.
http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/tissue.asp
simplicitus
December 20, 2012 at 9:07 pm