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53. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Story of Offsets Has Been Very Disappointing

According to research, the story of offsets has been very disappointing. When you tell people you should just use less carbon, think what you're doing is your sliding into making it a moral issue. In the state of bihar in india, per capital electricity consumption there on an annual basis is about 270 kilawat hours per person per year. That's like running two, 60 wat bulbs six hours a day in the united states,. Is like 13 thousand kilobat ours per person peryear. If you really want to talk about morals, like think about behar, or think about to the poor farmer in the amazon. The moral issue to them is that there are 270 kil

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