Look out, this will be a strange blog post.
See, it started out as an email to a pal who is publishing a paper on the e-waste trade, and he wanted some comments. And it's a really intellectual kind of a paper, you know? Real Ph.D stuff. And I start out by trying to make some intelligent comments.
Then that isn't working, the email's getting really long, and really meandering all over the place, and I'm gonna have to cut it. But then it wound up in this really incredibly important place, explaining two things that I realize I thoroughly believe.
- The poorer a person is in an completed exchange, the more likely they are to be the expert, and the more their opinion should be valued.
- Activities that reduce property value tend to take place in areas with lower property value.
The first is really kind of the complete opposite of the whole EU, Interpol, Basel E-Steward thing. But the second says that nevertheless, there is a point to environmental justice.
You don't fix the second problem by Bullyboy-ing Joseph Benson.
