“Are You Sure You Wouldn’t Like a Red Carpet?”
Herblock compared road building in United States forest reserves to providing a red carpet reception for the timber industry. His John Q. Public character is the loser, flattened in the middle of the road. In 1997, the Worldwatch Institute, located in Washington, D.C., issued a report Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics and the Environment, arguing that 500 billion taxpayer dollars paid for deforestation, over-fishing, and other environmentally destructive activities and brought more financial loss than gain in the long term.
Herblock compared road building in United States forest reserves to providing a red carpet reception for the timber industry. His John Q. Public character is the loser, flattened in the middle of the road. In 1997, the Worldwatch Institute, located in Washington, D.C., issued a report <em>Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics and the Environment</em>, arguing that 500 billion taxpayer dollars paid for deforestation, over-fishing, and other environmentally destructive activities and brought more financial loss than gain in the long term.