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In reply to the discussion: Can we achieve growth & equality while kicking Climate Change? [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)20. To be fair...
If you have running water you use (for any amount of time) you need to understand there is a vast infrastructure supporting that (pumps, steel piping, reservoirs, filtration systems, electrical input, etc), which all causes (or has caused) vast environmental harm for your benefit.
Is it possible to extend this type of a service to 8 billion people in the name of equality without fudging things up too much more than now? Maybe. But you might have to give up your car
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It's not the size of our economy, it's our income distribution that's the problem.
pampango
Jan 2013
#59
These ideas can't do anything for the global situation unless implemented en masse
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#15