This really is pollution and yes, we do have this general assumption that the polluter should pay for having polluted.
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In general we say that the polluter should pay, the polluter should pay the costs of cleaning up the pollution they cause.
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Fortunately, he notes, economists have already figured out how to deal with such externalities: tax them so that the polluter internalises the cost of his actions.
Because the polluter ought to be paying for it, so that they take it into account in their costs when the decide to do the activity or not.
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After the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which swamped an Alaskan sound with oil and put the company in the polluter in chief spot for years, Raymond did little directly to repair its image in the eyes of the public.
The country already ranks as the world's largest importer of illegally logged timber and the biggest polluter of the Pacific Ocean.
In line with the "polluter pays" principle, the EU plan also stipulates that producers would have to organize and finance the treatment, recovery and disposal of waste.
Mr. WHITE: They would argue that the US is, far and away, the biggest polluter.
It also urges a review of the system for damages for oil spills to ensure that the "polluter pays" principle is upheld.
As the world's biggest polluter, the US is able to earn "carbon credits" for its preservation initiatives in Congo without having to cut any greenhouse gas emissions back home.
More than 80 countries have signed the Kyoto pact, but no major polluter has ratified the treaty.
But before worrying about the mote in a distant polluter's eye, it makes sense to consider the beam in thine own.
As the world's number three polluter, Russia's signature was crucial to bring the protocol into force.
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The second-biggest polluter, America, (with 20%) is also free to emit, as it has not ratified the treaty.
In 2001, however, President George Bush withdrew the U.S. -- the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, responsible for approximately 25% of global emissions -- from the Protocol (Australia also withdrew).
Without the agreement of the US - the world's biggest polluter - there is little hope that any reduction in greenhouse gases will be achieved.
In China, the largest clothing manufacturer in the world, the textile industry is also a major polluter.
The first priority is the troops, but the environmental benefits are a bonus, because the military has long been a big polluter.
"It is not enough to simply say that China is a big polluter and leave it at that, " Dr. Tim Forsyth of the London School of Economics told CNN.
Rusbridger also supported a suggestion by Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, for a press ombudsman who could investigate serious lapses of standards on a "polluter pays" basis.
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