All Posts Tagged With: "first world"
Consumption Must Be Curtailed to Sustain the Human Race?
Jared Diamond, in a January 2 op-ed in the New York Times, argues for a political solution to what he sees as a looming “consumption crisis” facing humanity. He notes that the current consumption of many resources, such as oil and metals, is roughly 32 times higher in the developed than in the developing world [...]
1Apr2008 | Gene Callahan | 1 comment | Continued-
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