What’s Your Consumption Factor?
Wednesday, January 2 2008
Jared Diamond (author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel") offers an analysis of the consumption disparity between the first world and the developing world and the environmental implications for the future.
"Much American consumption is wasteful and contributes little or nothing
to quality of life. For example, per capita oil consumption in Western
Europe is about half of ours, yet Western Europe’s standard of living
is higher by any reasonable criterion, including…"