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and totally ignores the question of how much resources they consume, which is the focus of the WWF report

that was not the focus of the WWF report. there were two focusses. one was footprint *per capita* (and by country), not total footprint. the other focus was biodiversity.

the per capita assumption isn't about how much resources are being used, and for what. it's about how powerful individual people are, and how rich they are. it's opposed to effective, rich people, and gives better scores to nations stuffed to the brim with poor people. and it will do that even if the poor nation uses, in absolute terms, more footprint than its rich neighbors.

-- Elliot Temple
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by Elliot Temple on Tue, 10/31/2006 - 19:33

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