Last night a gaggle of international journalists asked why Mongolia to celebrate WED and it true with an economy built on mining and a land heaving with every conceivable mineral imaginable the future for the environment here and the traditional nomadic way of life could look bleak.
But you only have to meet the officials in the ministeries and the people on the street to know that they are determined to 'do a Norway'--Norway was broke and poor at the end of World War II but then they discovered oil. Instead of being a resource curse, they used it as a resource blessing investing profits in trust funds and policies that have made that small country a social and environmental beacon that punches above its weight in international affairs.
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