onlooker wrote:" there are 7.7+ Billion people on this Earth" currently living. And roughly 1/5 are "greedy and careless bastards". .
onlooker wrote:" There are 7.7+ Billion people on this Earth" currently living. And roughly 1/5 are "greedy and careless bastards".
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:onlooker wrote:" There are 7.7+ Billion people on this Earth" currently living. And roughly 1/5 are "greedy and careless bastards".
Let me stop you right there. It is more like 95/100 humans are greedy and careless but only 1/5 is wealthy enough that you personally notice their bad behavior.
The number of people out of any group who would live an ascetic lifestyle given any other choice is very very small. Until you understand that you will never understand why the 'poor' nations of the world are so eagerly building fossil fuel burning power stations just as rapidly as they an manage.
Heck I know YOU don't live an ascetic lifestyle yourself, obviously you have electricity and internet access or you would not be posting here yourself
Tanada wrote:onlooker wrote:" There are 7.7+ Billion people on this Earth" currently living. And roughly 1/5 are "greedy and careless bastards".
Let me stop you right there. It is more like 95/100 humans are greedy and careless but only 1/5 is wealthy enough that you personally notice their bad behavior.
The number of people out of any group who would live an ascetic lifestyle given any other choice is very very small. Until you understand that you will never understand why the 'poor' nations of the world are so eagerly building fossil fuel burning power stations just as rapidly as they an manage.
Heck I know YOU don't live an ascetic lifestyle yourself, obviously you have electricity and internet access or you would not be posting here yourself
Ibon wrote:Whatever the lower and middle class represent as a percentage they are in aggregate the most egregious consumers on the planet. Most of the 1% or 5% keep most of their wealth in fake digital portfolios, they are not actually spending their billions on stuff.
jedrider wrote:Got back from my trip to France. Covered a lot of ground, so it was not exactly a restful trip.
Beautiful country. Even more beautiful people.
I visited Lille, Bruge (Belgium), Epernay (Champagne), London, Avignon, Arles, Aix, Marseille, Paris, in that order.
Really enjoyed it.
dohboi wrote:
Second, billions of dollars 'sitting' in banks and investments of various sorts are not, of course, just 'sitting' there. They are mostly fueling and promoting the very devastations that we bemoan so frequently here.
Tourism in France directly contributed 77.7 billion euros to gross domestic product, 30% of which comes from international visitors and 70% from domestic tourism spending. The total contribution of travel and tourism represents 9.7% of GDP and supports 2.9 million jobs (10.9% of employment) in the country.
Today, it employs 3.5% of the French active population. The land consolidation and the reorganization of the agriculture led to a fall in the number of farms. Today, the average size of the farms is much larger than 60 years ago (around 55 hectares).
Today, there are 490,000 farms in metropolitan France and 24,800 in the overseas regions. This represents a Utilized Agricultural Area of nearly 30 million hectares, that is to say still more than half of French territory. This Utilized Agricultural Area is divided in 3 major crops: 63% of cropland (cereal and forage crops mainly), 34% of areas under grass and 3% of perennial crops, vineyards and orchards.
France is the first agricultural power in the European Union. With an agricultural production of 61 billion euros in 2009, it produces 19% of European agricultural goods and has the largest agricultural area.
KaiserJeep wrote:....after the environment crash, the Earth's surface will be a ready examplle of unmanaged ape behavior, literally Hell on Earth.
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