NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/talk/environm/3444

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Hayes)
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Subject: GATT:RESOURCES (Ladies Garment Wrkrs U; Harpers; Frnds ofthe Earth)
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 05:03:00 GMT
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On 08-28-92  20:25 misc.activism,progressive co-moderaCAll said to All

 mc> 1.  An article by Walter Russell Mead in this month's HARPER'S
 mc> MAGAZINE describes GATT as potentially more powerful than
 mc> the United Nations.  Mead looks at GATT and NAFTA's ability to
 mc> erode the sovereignty of federal governments and the
 mc> agreements' potential consequences on the environment, labor
 mc> unions and consumers.  Source: Walter Russell Mead, "Bushism,
 mc> Found: A Second-Term Agenda Hidden in Trade Agreements,"
 mc> HARPER'S MAGAZINE, September 1992, p. 37.

Why only federal governments?

Are unitary governments more concerned about the environment, or more
resistant to the powers of GATT.

As federal versus unitary governments are being hotly debated here in
South Africa, it would be interesting to know if there is something
intridically more environment-friendly in the federal form.


... Steve Hayes, Missiology Dept, University of South Africa, Pretoria

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