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Each time we help the environment by 5%, leaders let the population grow by 5% (often by immigration saying « We need it »). Population and footprint are incre
by laurent92 6y ago
Each time we help the environment by 5%, leaders let the population grow by 5% (often by immigration saying « We need it »).
Population and footprint are increasing just like it always has, and our efforts are just being used to squeeze a few more of us here.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 6y agoExcept countries don't share the same footprint per capital, at all. Simply compare the carbon footprint of a US inhabitant vs a Vietnamese. We could be a handful of billions more on Earth and reduce the global footprint, so the size of the population not the issue but how we live (big house, big SUV, lots of meat, etc). And of course, if the world's power continue to promote the American Way of Life as the way to go, all countries will look like the US and we'll destroy our habitat. But that's not a population problem but one of culture.
- laurent92 6y agoThey also work to raise the lower countries’ population consumption levels, so ecology is just economy in the West, more spending in the East, but still exponential growth of our footprint.