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Originally posted by jet_silver
Sometimes images like this are misleading. The idea that 1/3 of people live in China and India isn't contradicted by the relative lack of illumination. I believe it was Buckminster Fuller who developed the metric that standard of living increases in direct ratio to the power available per capita. The complete conclusion is: 1/3 of people, most of whom have a low standard of living, live in China and India.
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no, I don't think I was misled, I was drawing out the same conclusion as yours (you just said it more bluntly). I thought it interesting that the 260 million people in the US produce this massive glare of light (at least on the eastern side of the US) while 2 billion people in India and China hardly make a mark.
08-13-2001, 07:01 PM
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