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Article: Ranking rankings.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the Editor)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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In your latest issue ["Nordic Countries Are World's Sustainability Leaders," Environmental Intelligence, May/June] you cite a study by an organization ranking countries by various parameters (not specified). Bolivia and the Central African Republic came out at the top of the list. This is a simply ridiculous conclusion in terms of quality of life, political stability, educational standards, etc. If you regard such assessments as meaningful, when are you going to relocate your headquarters to either of them? As for the Scandinavian countries, which ranked high in another assessment in the same article, things like cost of living [and] crowding into the cities to maintain an ...