There's a new Feature article in U-Know, 'What’s Your Consumption Factor?' by Jared Diamond.
Diamond is best known for his books 'Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years', about how our industrial society evolved, and 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive' covering how civilisations deal with major crises and why those who have failed did so.
In the article he explains that it's not so much how many of us there are on earth but how much we each consume. Taking numerous major factors, he calculates that the average American consumes 32 times as much as the average human. Were we all to consume that much, it would be the equivalent of having 72 billion people on earth.
The idea that developing countries can some how catch up is cruel hoax, and their trying to do so will be catastrophic.
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/uknow/features/index.php?id=95
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