In accord with the principle that the polluter should pay, polluters should be required to absorb the costs of the entire pollution control system. See pages 202-203. Even if one is a teetotaler or a vegetarian that level of affluence is desirable, and would serve by itself to rule out populations at or above today's level. What really must be stabilized is total consumption, which of course is population times per capita consumption. Dr. Makhijani describes a situation in India in which a pollution permit program might increase, not decrease, pollution.
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