This paper shows that when a very dirty technology is associated with positive production of a good in an economy then marginal reductions in dirtiness of the technology might lead to an increase in pollution if its consumers are environmentally very aware and a decrease in pollution if...

The literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is incomplete in the sense that much of the theoretical and empirical literature are not properly linked. While the theoretical literature deals with the relationship between per capita income and net emissions much of the empirical...