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Who Consumes the Most?
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Donella H. Meadows |
09 Aug 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Singapore, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, United States, Norway. Those are the world's five top nations, in descending order, in -- well, what category would you guess? If you say income per capita, you're close, but no cigar. Since the 1985 oil price crash, the Middle East no longer dominates the list of the world's richest nations. The income leaders in 1998 were Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Denmark, and Singapore. The United States was ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, marine life, placemaking, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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