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- From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
- Subject: Re: life and work
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.062809.13004@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
- References: <MURPHYG.92Aug19115537@peplinsk.Software.Mitel.COM> <BtDBtp.KsI@news.udel.edu> <MURPHYG.92Aug25140034@murphyg.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:28:09 GMT
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- In article <MURPHYG.92Aug25140034@murphyg.Software.Mitel.COM> murphyg@Software.Mitel.COM (Gary Murphy) writes:
- >This is not to
- >justify North America's 15% of humanity consuming 85% of the world
- >resources...
-
- The U.S. and Canada are slightly more than 300 million, out of 5.5 billion.
- The entire G-7 is about 12% of the population (but 15% of the land area,
- excluding antarctica).
-
- That '85% of the world's resources' is highly questionable as well. I
- don't think even the G-7 nations consume 85% of _all_ resources. Do you
- have more information?
-
- Many investors are turning 'green.' The G-7 governments may ignore the
- rest of the world, but green investors (thru IRS's and 401(k)s, for
- instance) control a _lot_ of money,... and the amount of green money is
- increasing dramatically each year.
-
- However, tossing meaningless or out-of-date statistics is a good way
- to get _all_ investors to ignore you.
-
-
- Bear Giles
- bear@fsl.noaa.gov
-