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View submission: The Guardian View on Development’s Paradox: The Rich Benefit More Than The Poor
I don't think the concern is necessarily price equality, but volume equality. You would need magnitudes more supply of those coconuts to make up for the cost of importing first-world finished goods. We're already seeing this with massive deforestation in the Pacific to keep up with demands for palm oil.
Comment by gauchnomics at 20/01/2025 at 19:08 UTC
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I agree that we should care more about environmental effects of trade. We should hold imported goods to similar environmental standards as we do with domestic goods. Unfortunately that's not what with the above editorial or the underlying research paper is about. But agreed palm oil is a good example of this dynamic.