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Byline: Bradley Meacham
"Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America" by J. Timmons Roberts and Nikki Demetria Thanos; Routledge ($18.95)
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Traveling amid the poverty and polluted squalor of urban El Salvador last year, I remember one educated German telling me his explanation for the region's problems. "Someone has to stop globalization," he said.
Indeed, anyone who's ventured beyond the well-trod tourist trail in Latin America has been faced with the same questions: Why are people so poor? Why is there so much pollution? What can be done about it?
With thick brown air, deforested ...