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Green Countries.(Cover Story: Who Is the Greenest of Them All?; SPECIAL REPORT)(environmental performance index)
Byline: Fred Guterl and Barrett Sheridan
A global report card on natons doing the most, and least, to clean up the environment.
Greens could learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt about how to track imminent environmental disasters. It may seem hard to believe in this age of data overload, but on the eve of the Great Depression, the United States had no broad measure of whether the economy was growing, or about to crash. Roosevelt's ill-fated predecessor, Herbert Hoover, was left watching random bits of debatable info like the size of freight-car loads. To correct this problem, Roosevelt asked economist Simon Kuznets to come up with a broad, standardized ...
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