Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2608178/latin_american_progressives_and_environmental_duplicity.html
Date Written:  2014-10-26
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16799

Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.

Subject Headings

• Extractive Industries