»In the end it proved that the so-called solo
actions were the decisive requirements for Germany to remain export world
champion.«
– Klaus
Töpfer
former director of the UN environmental
programme, August 2010
Until recently Germany had boasted that it was
export world champion. German know-how and technology are exported abroad,
naturally only to countries that can afford it. Not that other countries have
no need of the proverbial high-class German workmanship: on the contrary, poor
countries might have an even greater need. And German firms would certainly
like to supply these countries as long as they could pay.
You do not need much imagination to picture how
this will develop in the old system. The poor countries stay poor. The
so-called »emerging markets« increasingly develop into industrialised countries
and also strive to be export world champions. They now have the know-how and
the technology and as long as their wage level is still low they can produce
and supply at low costs. German products will then be too expensive and Germany
has meanwhile lost its title to China.
In the Natural Economy of Life industrialised
countries, such as Germany, will continue to export a lot with all countries of
the world being potential customers. The hitherto poor countries will have a
plentiful national budget and the Equalisation and Environment Fund is at their
disposal for innovative environmental technologies.
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