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Induction stove. Electric car. Heat pump. Those are indicators of being born in privilege. What about your AC in car and hotel and home? USA setting off nukes
by landemva 3y ago
Induction stove. Electric car. Heat pump. Those are indicators of being born in privilege. What about your AC in car and hotel and home?
USA setting off nukes and Britain fire bombing Dresden are examples of energy use which is wasteful and polluting. There are always exceptions to one broad indicator, in this example energy usage.
Technology improvement typically brings more efficient use of resources and less pollution. Energy consumption, as one indicator, tracks with increased GDP and increased standard of living.
- Gwypaas 3y agoMany advanced economies have decoupled energy use from economic growth. https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling
- landemva 3y agoUSA, and some western Europe, exported dirty manufacturing energy use and pollution outside the borders. Any nation rich or strong enough to export pollution of manufacturing will tend to show the numbers you highlight.
- Gwypaas 3y agoI recommend you read the short linked article before making strong statements. > It would be wrong to assume that rich countries have only achieved this by offshoring manufacturing overseas – which would simply mean that other countries are consuming this energy on their behalf. Consumption-based energy use – which adjusts for the energy used to produce the goods we import and export – has also plateaued or fallen in many countries. We see this clearly in the chart for Sweden.
- adrianN 3y agoMy point is that maximizing energy demand in no way leads to improved living conditions.
- landemva 3y agoCan we agree that energy released and used in war fighting is wasteful? In the general view of war fighting "over there". Britain did not improve the living conditions of those in Dresden.