A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts

Re:A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter ... by wazoox on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:43AM (#20673909)

That's both untrue and ethically disgusting, by pretending that some poor people toiling in some remote countries, using no pesticide and no machinery, eating mostly rice or yam, harm the planet more than MIT professors flying around the world from conference to conference with their macbooks under their arm. This is so wrong...

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Re:A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter ... by hackeraccount on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:28AM (#20676296)

The MIT professor is a lot more productive though - per unit of production he pollutes a fraction of what a poor farmer does.

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Re:A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter ... by wazoox on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:48PM (#20677942)

The ratio doesn't count for the planet. Only the total impact. Having "less impact per unit of resource" doesn't help when resources are exhausted.

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