Are clean or polluted air and water treated as commodities in the U.S. and other countries — and should they be? Assess the pros and cons of treating clean/polluted air and water as commodities to be traded and otherwise dealt with through market mechanisms (such as using pollution trading schemes and the sale of pollution rights to improve the environment, using market mechanisms to make fossil fuels and other energy more efficient and slow global warming, using profit-making private companies in clean-up efforts, making computer makers and sellers responsible for the disposal of old electronic devices, and using economic incentives to persuade people to accept a nearby nuclear waste repository) as opposed to non-market mechanisms.
The last 3 pages can they be based answering the following question:
You are a member of an international commission called together to recommend what steps citizens and individual nations (including the U.S., Mexico, and India) should take to address environmental problems of water and air pollution, global warming, habitat loss, and energy depletion that affect the entire world. Identify (1) at least 5 measures, (2) the impediments to achieving them, and (3) what should be done to help overcome these obstacles.
