Elizabeth Chun, Ch. 4 Question 6

The passage I found to be most interesting was the one about India and the factories.  In order to cut down on pollution, the government wanted to close 90,000 factories, which results in about one million people no longer having a job.  This environment vs. jobs situation 15 years ago seems to be prevalent now with the bill Obama vetoed this week that would have approved an oil pipeline bringing large amounts of oil from Canada to Texas daily. Just like in India, while this would create many jobs, it would also harm the environment. Also dealing with environmental trade offs was the DDT and malaria problem. I thought the author's comparison of deaths from malaria to the daily airplane crashes was an effective and shocking way of pointing out that sometimes the answer of what to do about these issues may be obvious and sometimes they might not be.