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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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Summers famously remarked that third world countries were "underpolluted".
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- it's that kind of thinking that led to Larry Summers famously saying that African countries are "underpolluted," because poisoning people in low-GDP African states makes less sense than poisoning the relatively more economically productive citizens of Western countries in Europe and America.
Suburban Guerrilla 2010
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"underpolluted" Africa and another time suggested men had a greater aptitude for science than women.
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It isn't even his signing on to a memo suggesting that it would be great for corporations to export pollution to developing nations that are "underpolluted."
California NOW 2008
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