[lbo-talk] How many earths

[Miles Jackson]

dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 2:58 pm, Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
> 
>> planet has a relatively limited amount of nonrenewable, crucial raw
>>  materials, so it is not possible for the entire world population
>> to live like the privileged few in industrialized nations.
> 
> 
> I'm with you up to this point, but we First Worlders really shouldn't
> be playing the game of setting limits on consumption in the
> semiperiphery and periphery, not even as a rhetorical move.
> 

I agree with you completely, as you would see if you read the rest of my 
post:


> That's why improving the living conditions in developing nations
> requires a significant shift in energy and resource use in
> industrialized nations. --To put it bluntly: if nations like the U.
> S. didn't exploit a disproportionate amount of the world's
> nonrenewable resources, more resources would be available to improve
> basic infrastructure in poor nations.

Miles