Globalization could improve environment
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Editor,
Fellow Montanan and noted MIT economist Lester Thurow has characterized the evolution from national economics to globalization, over the next 50 years, as a painful but necessary transition in the progress of humankind; a transition in which multi-national corporations and individual nations-states will clash over who has jurisdiction.
But if in this economic re-ordering, as it were, we gradually build a pervasive world middle class, I believe, and I think Mr. Thurow would agree, that the future for humankind looks very bright indeed.
The fact that Germany now gets approximately half of its energy from renewable sources is a good sign that as a corollary of this economic betterment, progress on improving the earth’s environment can be made as well.
Virgil Hess
Polson
