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Originally Posted by michiganmoon
Fair point. The conservative position on this issue seems to be man does not influence climate...hence liberals on this issue have to worry about this aid increasing climate change.
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It's not just climate change. Every environmental problem gets worse when you add more consumption to the equation. The world will soon have 9 billion people on it. In an ideal world, each one of those people would have some access to enough clean water, grain, energy, shelter, transportation, education, protein, medicine, and clean air.
Getting the poorest people up to a minimum level of consumption (water, energy, food) is literally a drop in the bucket in terms of ecological impact. The world has resources for everyone: we have enough land, enough water...it's just that some people are using 500x their share, leaving 1 billion with nothing. Let's get that 1 billion something, and we'll worry about the rest later.