Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Who will buy this wonderful forest?


The Economist reports of a bargaining impasse between America's armchair conservationists and Cameroon over a rich virgin forest. Cameroon wants $2/hectare to forego logging while the conservationists figure that the going rate for virgin rainforest is only $0.37/hectare.

If, as our textbook says, "the alternatives to agreement determine the terms of agreement," then American Conservationists seem to have the upper hand, as there are lots of rain forests that can be saved for much cheaper than $2/hectare. Expect Cameroon to acquiesce soon.

1 comment:

  1. www.Cocomartini.com

    I get all my textbooks for this semester from this bookstore. All are brand new textbooks and half price discount textbooks and cheap textbooks.

    Good luck and wish some help.

    hehe ^_^

    ReplyDelete