On Dec 16, 5:44 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> This is quite a sensible argument. However, I think the positive
> externalities are all too easily forgotten. If Europe and the US had
> never burnt any coal, there would be less CO2 in the atmosphere, but
> there would also be no vaccines, no mobile phones, no photovoltaics,
> no modern wind turbines, no batteries.
>
> The availability of these technologies is, has been and will continue
> to be a huge boon to the development of poorer nations, all of which
> have higher living standards today than a 100 years ago.
I think I heard it said quite recently that the standard of living in
Somalia is about where it was 5000 years ago (sorry can't remember
where).
James
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