Word: littering
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...proposition the memo offers—to pay lower-wage countries to accept our pollution—is rather straightforward. Consider a machine that could magically suck grime and litter off the streets of Los Angeles and deposit it in Calcutta. Given that the Calcutta city government has more important things to worry about, it seems reasonable that it might value clean streets somewhat less than we do and be willing to take a little bit of grime for the right fee—a fee that could be immediately redirected into other, more pressing priorities, such as saving scores...
...temporarily do without them. There might be unequal information, where we send more and dirtier grime than they were expecting, but presumably Los Angeles would be required by contract to be up-front. There might be a “moral hazard,” in which Angelenos will litter more, knowing that their actions will have less effect; but the same could occur after more frequent street sweeping. And there might be agent problems, in which the Calcutta government might negotiate in its own best interests and not those of its people; but if this is the case, we?...
...conceivable, of course, that the KKK has some deep-seated desire to pick up litter along Missouri's highways and byways, or to plant a few posies on the median just in time for spring. But by the time the case got to the first round of appeals, it was all about legalities. According to Thomas Robb, national director of the KKK based in Harrison, Ark., the legal challenge was "a purely constitutional issue...
...Personally, I think all the Baha Men need is a new catchphrase. I have one: "Could somebody empty the kitty litter?" I think it's a winner...
...Could somebody empty the kitty litter...