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  I'm just wondering why anyone would pay any attention at all to Jeffrey Sachs regarding climate change or environmental technology. (1) He's an economist. He has no special training in science or engineering. Most economists are totally incompetent regarding even their chosen field -- witness the current economic crisis, brought to us by the very likes of Jeffrey Sachs. (2) Jeffrey Sachs is the person who, almost single-handedly, it might be said (for effect), destroyed the Russian economy with his "shock therapy." See point (1).

  [From a Ph.D. economist.]

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  economic growth and environmental sustainability

  Readers have convincingly refuted Akst's specific arguments. I'd just like to add that his arguments are really quite common, quite standard arguments from the pantheon of neoclassical economics, also the source, for instance, of Larry Summers' famous "argument" that it makes "impeccable" economic "logic" to pollute the third world.

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