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• eli_gottlieb 11y ago
  Right, now measure on a per-capita basis or on the basis of percentage of GDP. At least it's adjusted for bloody inflation.
  • T-A 11y ago
    So more dollars are cuts if population or GDP grows faster? Does the same principle apply to other quantities too? Let's try a fun one: atmospheric CO2 concentration. From 1980 to 2012, it grew roughly 17% [1]. During the same period, world population grew 57% [2], and gross world product grew 144% [3]. So atmospheric CO2 has been drastically cut? :P [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere#/media/File:AIRS_Carbon_Dioxide_Vertical.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at... [2] http://www.geohive.com/earth/his_history3.aspx http://www.geohive.com/earth/his_history3.aspx [3] http://kushnirs.org/macroeconomics/gdp/gdp_world.html http://kushnirs.org/macroeconomics/gdp/gdp_world.html