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You can be poor while easily meeting your energy needs. A classic example is remote rural areas where virtually all inhabitants own some plot of land. Even if t
by mkl95 4y ago
You can be poor while easily meeting your energy needs. A classic example is remote rural areas where virtually all inhabitants own some plot of land. Even if they are poor they can feed their fireplace with some wood, for free.
- lostapathy 4y agoThere’s an awful lot of the world where there isn’t wood available to do that. Like the plains of the US, even in Native American times trees were too precious to burn.
- Panzer04 4y agoSure, but your standard of living will be lower. The energy needs he's talking about include all usage, including that which you get from burning wood on your land. There's nowhere near enough natural wood worldwide to meet our energy consumption