l that needs to be overcome on the road to free trade is that there is no precise way to measure polution. Without numbers to prove claims made by countries, almost any enviornmental restriction could be knocked down in the name of Freedom and comercial gain. We cannot allow what enviornmentalist Lori Wallach called Trade uber alles (Trade over all),( trade will become the one value that overruns all others. (Burgess pg. 1-2 of printout)Certain countries depend on consumation of reasources that we might consider enviornmentally unsafe. Brazils economy depends on the logging of its rainforest. The entire world depends on the oxygen produced by those same Rainforests. The only solution is for the countries of the world to pay for necesities like air. Brazil must be paid for its air, paid the amount that it stands to gain from logging to rainforest, and in return it would sign to trees over to public ownership. Brazil would receive the funds it needs to buy technology needed to obtain other reasources without resorting to destroying their land with strip mines. All countries that contain reasources that they stand to gain by consuming, but also serve an ecological purpose must be paid to not comsume those reasources.The solution to these problems is international legislation. A social and enviornmental clause must be added to the constitution of the WTO making WTO membership and privliges conditonal on agreement to adhere to a set of standards laid down by the congress of the WTO. These standards must include but not be limited to, 1. A ban on forced or compulsory labor. 2. Workers must have the right to organize and bargain collectively. 3. Men and women must receive equal pay. 4. A ban on discrimination due to union membership. 5. A minimum age for employment. 6. A set of enviornmental restrictions that keep the worlds Air, water, and land clean. However, it must not include a global minimum wage, because that would eliminate the econi...
