Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete

Re:Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than c... by pessimizer on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:52AM (#26100927)

Because your children will pollute and consume an order of magnitude more than poor children. If you're American, your children will pollute and consume twice as much as even Europeans, IIRC.

Of course, this is the average American, which is a deceptive number when talking about countries with high levels of wealth inequality.

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Re:Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than c... by vinay427 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:11AM (#26122896)

The "twice as much as even Europeans" is even more deceptive as there's a difference of at least a factor of 2 between countries in Europe. For instance, Switzerland's consumption of carbon per capita is almost 3 times that of Bulgaria or Portugal, while Luxembourg is apparently over twice as high as the US (not sure why?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

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Re:Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than c... by Grustaf on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:15AM (#26101103)

Please don’t assume I’m American; anything but that.

I’m not an advocate for population control, but if I were I wouldn’t exclude poor countries from my scope. Many poor countries are “developing” and it seems more reasonable to ask people that were planning to have 8 children to instead have 4 rather than targeting people that were aiming for one or two. Especially when the 8 kid family to be is already poor.

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