The per-capita consumption of the world’s countries is very diverse. Quatar’s resource consumption is more than 50 times higher than the consumption of the world’s poorest nations. This is due to the large infrastructure projects (Peal-Quatar) and the high consumption of fossil fuels. But also many other countries, among them Austria, consume far more than the world’s average, while for most countries remains less. What would happen from an ecological point of view if all those countries would leave poverty and raise their consumption to the average level? Without a drastic reduction of the high consumption of the world’s rich nations, this will not be possible.
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