Multinational Corporations Are Able to Prevent the Implementation of Policies

question 54

Multiple Choice

Multinational corporations are able to prevent the implementation of policies to address pollution because

• A) they threaten to shift production to nations with more lax regulations-so the air pollution will occur somewhere regardless of a single nation's laws against it
• B) there are no international treaties to discourage pollution
• C) they are able to produce goods to sell in any nation
• D) they already consider the cost of environmental remediation (fixing the problems that pollution causes) in their budgets

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