Yoshie Furuhashi says:
It's best if ecosocialists focus on this aspect of the problem: toxic
chemicals endangering workers' health.
Is this discussion taking account of the fundamentals?
"If just the present world population of 5.8 billion people were to live at
current North American ecological standards (say 4.5 ha/person), a
reasonable first approximation of the total productive land requirement
would be 26 billion ha (assuming present technology). However, there are
only just over 13 billion ha of land on Earth, of which only 8.8 billion are
ecologically productive cropland, pasture, or forest (1.5 ha/person). In
short, we would need an additional two planet Earths to accommodate the
increased ecological load of people alive today. If the population were to
stabilize at between 10 and 11 billion sometime in the next century, five
additional Earths would be needed, all else being equal -- and this just to
maintain the present rate of ecological decline (Rees & Wackernagel, 1994)."
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