Water subsidies may be the biggest problem facing rivers in the Pacific Northwest. That’s according to Mr. Terry Anderson, Senior Fellow with the Political Economy Research Center, a think-tank in Bozeman, Montana. In an interview with host Steve Curwood, Anderson foresees that environmentalists will team up with fiscally conservative lawmakers to change the way water […]
Host Steve Curwood talks with author Hazel Henderson about the problems of industries dependent on diminishing resources, such as fishing and logging. Henderson says governments need to encourage the transition away from “sunset industries” by phasing out subsidies and imposing taxes on the use of nonrenewable resources.