Striking new paper shows that bringing the entire world population up to decent-living standards would require only about 3% of existing global resource use.
Striking new paper shows that bringing the entire world population up to decent-living standards would require only about 3% of existing global resource use.
Think about the implications of this:
Right now, at least 80% of humanity is deprived of decent-living standards. More than 2 billion people do not even have stable access to food. These are massive levels of deprivation.
And it is *totally avoidable*. We can ensure all 8 billion people have universal healthcare, good housing, education, nutritious food, sanitation systems, transit, clothing, refrigerators, freezers, necessary heating/cooling, mobile phones, internet, computers, etc...
...all of this with only 3% of existing global resource use. Specifically: 7% of existing material use, 1% of existing emissions, 2% of existing land use, and 2% of existing water use.
This highlights just how wildly irrational our existing economy is. Capital uses our planet's resources to produce whatever maximizes profits to capital, leaving billions of human beings - the people who are actually doing the production - in totally needless deprivation.
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posted by Satish Sharma at
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