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> we used to live malnourished, with stunted growth, women dying in childbirth to bring 8 kids into the world half of whom would die in childhood...

> We're doing pretty well.

You know it's interesting to think about who is doing well and who is not thanks to global industrialization. In the last 50 years "we" in the OECD countries simply moved our polluting industry to poor countries, where people have had their ancestral farm land taken by governments and replaced with polluting factories. This has left many of them with few opportunities other than to work in dangerous factories while living and raising their children in toxic wastelands.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...




> "we" in the OECD countries simply moved our polluting industry to poor countries

Carbon intensity of GDP, worldwide, fell almost 40% between 1980 and 2021 [1]. (-1.3% CAGR.)

We do offshore toxic industries. But we're also getting better at being less toxic. Environmentalism isn't all a shell game.

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissions...




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