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> How Fighting Poverty Accidentally Stopped Deforestation This is garbage - When know by fighting poverty, which is increasing wealth, it's good for The envi
by aaron695 6y ago
> How Fighting Poverty Accidentally Stopped Deforestation
This is garbage -
When know by fighting poverty, which is increasing wealth, it's good for
The environment, all the social rights, IQ, crime, happiness, almost all issues the rich first world people think are important. Because the people targeted become better off and can afford to worry about these issues as well.
This is why good people fight poverty, and the bad people jump ahead and fight for the things that come after poverty, because that's what makes them personally feel good.
- mrpopo 6y agoThen why are rich people bigger meat consumers and bigger CO2 emitters than poor people?
- imtringued 6y agoThey burn coal instead of wood. In practice both are equally unsustainable but deforestation is an issue with higher visibility.
- mrpopo 6y agoStrange answer. Most importantly, they consume a lot more energy, be it from coal or from wood.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThey consume more because they have more money to consume with; that's not the focal point of the article though, it focused on deforestation specifically. CO2 emissions is a different challenge, albeit related to CO2 emissions and sequestration.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoOw really? So how much more does GDP of US need to improve so that it can stop its environmentally irresponsibly behaviour?