Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: The Jevons Paradox is bullshit. [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)They want to consume clean water, and decent food, and maybe some day own a small TV set and a telephone, and maybe an air conditioner... not much, just a tenth of what we already have.
Where do they fit in your self-satisfied calculations, those low-income countries in the rest of the world, the 800 million people whose energy consumption has stayed flat at an average of 383 to 365 kgoe since 1980?
It's good to be a first world westerner, isn't it? Fuck the foreigners and their forlorn desire to play catch-up. They could make do with what they had if they only were as efficient as us. We can even tell them where to offshore their manufacturing ... wait, what?
I'm sorry, but facile, imperialistic "analysis" like yours really pisses me off.