World Bank calls on countries to take urgent steps to protect 'natural capital'

[kristopher]

39. You say there are more choices but you didn't say what they are.

Have you actually studied environmental economics (has nothing to do with "Chicago School, that is just a cheap shot on your part) or public policy analysis?

There are a lot of highly placed and influential people in global governance institutions who share every concern you have and care every bit as much as you regarding the negative impacts of world bank funded development of all sorts. Even if you can provide concrete steps that will put the world bank out of business by fulfilling their mission to alleviate poverty better than they are doing (that isn't such a high bar) it is only logical to try to improve the system in place until your solution is enacted - the two are not mutually exclusive.

As I said to hatrack below, instead of shotgun blast rants, it would be far more helpful to identify the block of nations who are obstructing the needed change and then hammer on them relentlessly.

Here are a couple of links that look in more detail at the problems.
http://co2scorecard.org/home/researchitem/19

And from the bottom of that write-up:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/03/world_bank.html
http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11033.aspx
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/09/banking_on_coal
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-23/climate-change-math-in-treaties-flawed-by-suspect-pollution-calculations.html