Environmental sustainability & the Kuznets curve

Ferrini studies the reality of a whole Environmental Kuznets Curve (E KC) to address the question of what relationship associates economic growth to the environment. 

No clear evidence of a negative relationship between growth and CO2 emissions were found in specific, there is insignificant sign of an E KC-type relationship that suggest emissions are reduced as income continues to grow. Likewise, there is a lack of significant indication of a descending slope.  Apart from that, emission movements in industrialized nations do not illustrate such trend either. This indicates that environmental protection is intensely related to local features and local reactions to environmental challenges. The E KC evidence has been recognized generally as pollution that does not surpass local borders, and for which abatement is as a result more affordable and significant. The author also highlighted the importance of influential changes and environmental measures that even in the unlikely context that growth is beneficial for the environment after a convinced level; it can only position the situations for abatement.

On the issue of global dimensions of trade, on the other hand, bring about the underlying forces that may have assumed the false impression of a Kuznets Curve.  Although there are acknowledged economic benefits to trade, disagreement on trade dialogues between nations often stem from political intentions and national security concerns.  Concerns relative to issues such as product safety guidelines, labor regulations, and nationalism could lead to trade barriers that prompted dispute of another nature like the possible conflict among the added advantages from trade and a deterioration in environmental quality.  Trade supporters argue that the economic improvements from trade will benefit poorer countries afford the expensive clean-up of severe environmental contamination as a counter to the dispute of trans-boundary pollution according to Callan and Thomas. The reality is the shift of extremely damaging production away from industrialized countries toward developing nations makes no difference to the Eco-sphere.  The move may have lowered the environmental effect of the developed nations without however decreasing the overall effect on the environment.

So, the relationship between economic growth and the environment has without a doubt proven to have positive relationship between growth and emissions. This confirms carbon emissions are reduced as income continues to grow.  However, this does not mean that economic improvements from trade that benefit developing nations excuse the exploitation undertakings of industrialized nations that induce even more tensions and struggles of the poor nations.