Re:Why inequality matters (2014)
by mrpopo on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:08AM
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The sentinelese (as well as all farmers in low-income countries) are directly impacted by environment degradation caused by the richest people experiencing "accelerating quality of life". Thinking that our way of life is not impacting others is inherently evil, yes.
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Except it isn't a straightforward relationship between production and environmental degradation. The 'how' matters quite a bit namely in terms of efficiency. To pretend that producing a new genetic therapy is the same as grazing one million more goats is asinine.
The awkward truth is that we have always had an impact on others even back in ancient times wrongly considered isolated arcadias in tune with their environment. Mega-fauna didn't become extinct from running out of food but from humans running out of them as food, and the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon rain forests.
> To pretend that producing a new genetic therapy is the same as grazing one million more goats is asinine.
You're the only one pretending that?
Of course, 0-impact is impossible, except the scale at which we are destroying our environment is unprecedented. Hunting of mega-fauna has occurred over thousands of years. Two-thirds of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970 (70 years) :
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/10/wwf-proposes-plan...