Comments by "Trazyn" (@Trazynn) on "Радикальная идея Пола Ромера: города хартии" video.

  1. There's also an environmental version of this curve. Mr.Romer's idea is essentially meant to flatten this curve. He wants to reduce the footprint of developing countries before they start industrialising. If you can introduce cities that already have all the right policies in place, you can prevent environmental nightmares that are a result of unchecked industrial growth.
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  2. Ever heard about the Kuznets curve?
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  3. I guess you missed the environmental kuznets curve bit. You´re basically agreeing with me.
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  4. Earht's population will urbanise whether you want it or not. There's no stopping it. Though if the growth goes naturally, it be much more polluting and resource demanding then if you use the policies he proposes. Look how the western world developped, it went trough a resource inefficient peak before we had the technology (and ideas, like he said) to make us more inefficient. Growth is unstoppable, we better have a framework in place to let it grow the right way.
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