For all the lectures on human rights and democracy coming out of Manila, the brutal fact of Philippine life is that millions of its people are forced to leave their families to do
dirty work elsewhere because they have no way to feed their families — this in a strategically located land with an educated, English - speaking workforce and bursting with natural resources.
Alternatively, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute have argued — in TNR and
elsewhere — that a policy like cap - and - trade, which
works by making
dirty energy expensive, will never gain broad political support.