Opinion: Costa Rica as a new energy role model
APR 12, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023235
The New York Times : More than any nation I’ve ever visited, Costa Rica is insisting that economic growth and environmentalism work together. It has created a holistic strategy to think about growth, one that demands that everything gets counted. So if a chemical factory sells tons of fertilizer but pollutes a river -- or a farm sells bananas but destroys a carbon-absorbing and species-preserving forest -- this is not honest growth. You have to pay for using nature. It is called “payment for environmental services” -- nobody gets to treat climate, water, coral, fish and forests as free anymore.
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
