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"Despite accounting for only a small percentage of the world's population, rich
nations have a long history of over-extracting raw materials from the planet,
and a new study highlights just how excessive and harmful this pattern of
plunder really is.
In an analysis looking back over almost 50 years of natural resource extraction
across the world, researchers found the United States and high-income countries
in the European Union drove the lion's share of global excess resource use
beyond thresholds of environmental sustainability.
"The results show that wealthy nations bear the overwhelming responsibility for
global ecological breakdown, and therefore owe an ecological debt to the rest
of the world," explains economic anthropologist Jason Hickel from Spain's
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
