Wasting the World: Enclosure Accumulation and Local Environmental Struggles on a Global Scale

Year 1998, Issue: 28, 53 - 74, 01.05.1998

Eddie J. Girdner

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000008

Abstract

Wasting the World: Enclosure Accumulation and Local Environmental Struggles on a Global Scale

Abstract

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the
lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.
Lawrence Summers (World Bank, US Treasury Secretary)
The name toxic imperialism has been used for struggles against the
export of toxic waste. Such struggles could easily link up with the
Environmental Justice Movement in the United States.1  

Keywords

Wasting the World, Enclosure Accumulation, Local Environmental