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Re: Overshooting ... was Malthus right? (4.00 / 3)

On page 19 of the living planet report (pdf) there is a graph with ecological footprint (in average) on one side and human development index (UNDP made index) on the other.

Generally it is the countries with a too big a footprint that has the highest human development, and those that live within their (ecological) means has a low human development.

One country has at the same time a HDI above 0.8 (regarded by UNDP as the threshold for "high human development") and an ecological footprint below the threshold for using up the whole planet. That country is Cuba.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 08:40:21 AM EST

Re: Overshooting ... was Malthus right? (none / 1)

It's possible that Kerala is in the same ballpark. As I understand it, it's one of the poorer states in India but has a high level of human development due to decades of communist pinko socialist government.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 10:23:02 AM EST
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Re: Overshooting ... was Malthus right? (4.00 / 2)

those goram commie pinkos, always taking away people's god-given right to die of kwashiorkor and giardia infestation and forced pregnancy...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 03:49:18 PM EST
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