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Compare and contrast the two basic approaches to dealing with pollution caused by economic activity: the Polluter Pays Principle versus the Precautionary Principle.
We have not spent a great deal of time on these in class, though we have covered the basic concepts. What you are going to going to explore in this essay is your reasoning why you would support one or the other as a superior approach and explain why. You are free to select either.
The text has limited information on these topics: a paragraph on page 205 on the (confusingly named) Precautionary Polluter Pays Principle (I prefer referring to just Precautionary Principle), and then a brief discussion of Polluter Pays policy on page 362 as to how it is applied in CERCLA, or the Superfund Act, where the technical distinctions between legal definitions of various forms of liability are discussed.
For more background, please refer to the Wikipedia entries on them: here are links to thePolluter Pays Principleand thePrecautionary Principle.
Because I want you to focus more on expressing your ideas in your own words, rather than searching for research material, the only citations that can be used are these two Wikipedia URLs. You do not need to create any footnotes in your essay; but if you really feel the need, you may cite these sources simply as possible, as in "...as stated in [1]," where [1] refers to a note at the end of your essay, like 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
Lines of Argument: you may wish to consider elements from the following in your lines of argument:

historical experiences with major pollution events
effectiveness of policy on affecting the behavior of potential polluters
ease of implementation as a policy

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ECO 245
Environmental Economics (online)
Fall 2012
Assignment [X]
By [Your Names]
[Date]
Nature has been giving us humans a lot. But humans, in return, have given nothing but damage to nature. Our environment has constantly been deteriorating. This damage has costs, which are both environmental and economical. It is high time steps should be taken to either prevent it from damaging further or take those to task who are responsible for the damage. 
Various intergovernmental organizations have been taking up the cause. Two ideas have been promoted to take care of these ideas. 
· Polluter pays principle
· Precautionary principle
 Polluter pays principle is strongly supported by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Community (EC) countries and ensures that whoever is responsible for damaging the environment pay for it. Also, it has been recognized as a part of the international environmental law and is known to pave the way for sustainable development by keeping a check on those who wreak the nature. It supports policies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions when enacted. In U.S. some environmental taxes have polluter pays as the underlying principle. These include   Gas Guzzler Tax, a "polluter pays" fine called Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE).

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