That doesn’t seem entirely fair. Plus you’ll get Summer Glau over my dead, starved for pudding body. No, we’ll settle this honorably, like Men : by declaring war and ordering other, younger people to die on our behalf.
Based on the talk I mentioned earlier, perhpas you should try this very quick quiz on world population - you may be surprised by some of the answers.
I said 60 years for average life expectancy instead of 70.
I should have known better because I did know that the Peoples Republic of China reports a very high life expectancy (checking, it is 76 years). This is hard for me to believe considering all the deep rural poverty which still exists, and the rudimentary state of China’s national health insurance. Can it really be true that the US spends 17 percent of sky-high GDP on health care, and China spends just 5 percent of low per capita GDP. and all it gets us is 2 more years of life? (There is no lesson here regarding universal coverage, as neither country exactly has it.)
Everything else the Guardian says sounds right.
Poverty does not invariably lead to poor health. While China is having terrible problems due to environmental degradation and increasing obesity, until recently the masses of rural poor ate a largely vegetarian diet, worked their butts off, stayed slim, and might well avoid quite a few of the chronic ills of more affluent people like diabetes and heart disease at a relatively early age.
Yes, it can be true, because for any item of “healthcare” you designate people in the US almost certainly pay more than anyone else. There is also the problem of overtreatment in the US, particularly among the elderly. No population is as generally medicated as the US.
Is it definitely true? I don’t know, but it seems plausible to me.
I don’t think the discussion makes much sense as long as we pretend planned obsolescence is not happening. That can heavily impact resource use.
Like they can’t make a tablet that would last 10 years and have easily replaceable components. It might not be so thin and light but it would not be throw away after 1 year.
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Except only a fool throws away their tablet after a year and simply buys an upgrade. There are tons of places that will buy your old electronics from you, even if it’s broken, and they reuse and resell them to folks who don’t have to have the latest thing. And, of course, most electronics are recycled for the more valuable or rare materials as well.