Saturday, October 12, 2013

Should We Live Shorter to Save the Planet?

National Review

Quote:

The overall trend in high-income countries with improvements to the Human Development Index, which includes human life expectancy as one of its variables, is toward a disproportionately larger negative impact on a country’s ecological footprint. However, some lower-income countries have a high level of development without a high impact on ecosystem services (Moran et al. 2008).

Comment:

Now that's Limits to Growth for you.  Not only will you not be permitted to grow economically, you will also be required to die younger.  That reminds me of a movie.



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