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hackeraccount on Aug 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A new book asserts that rich countries grow with l...

The MIT professor is a lot more productive though - per unit of production he pollutes a fraction of what a poor farmer does.

wazoox on Aug 12, 2019 [–]

The ratio doesn't count for the planet. Only the total impact. Having "less impact per unit of resource" doesn't help when resources are exhausted.

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