Sentences with phrase «rich countries consuming»

Mostly poor West African nations may be responsible for the growth of cocoa, but it's mostly people in rich countries consuming it.

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In many countries, breast milk is the safest and most nutrient rich food they will ever consume in their lifetime!

«Historically, coffee has been exploited by the West in various ways, because it's consumed in rich countries, and grown in poor ones,» said Alexander Myers, a KU doctoral candidate in sociology.

A study shows how people in Japan and Korea, which habitually include seaweeds into their diets, could be relatively immune to negative effects of high iodine intake, but one of these single seaweed - rich meals could already present health risks to unhabituated people in low - iodine consuming countries.

«We have the know - how to consume, in rich countries, only half as much [energy] as we do without lowering our REAL quality of life (REAL does not include unlimited SUVs, 15,000 sq. ft. custom - built houses etc, etc), and to provide everybody, even in the most desperate parts of Africa with enough for a decent life.

If that idea might have been plausible back in 1992, the last 25 years have decisively established that emerging economies around the world are developing exactly the same way that rich countries did, by urbanizing, industrializing, and consuming much more energy.

But a new report confirms that this is an accounting illusion - with more emissions being «exported» to developing countries, who increasingly make the goods consumed by the richer nations.

As poor countries and their people move out of poverty, though, they will have a greater impact on the land they occupy, and will consume more resources and produce more emissions and waste, just as the rich world does today.

Many commentators argue that focusing on where emissions are produced is unfair, because much of the carbon output of countries such as China are generated as a result of producing goods that are ultimately consumed in richer nations.

People in the poorer nations argue that the average person in the rich countries eats more food, consumes more energy and poisons the air more than they do.

Persuading people to reduce their energy consumption will therefore always be very difficult, even in rich countries that already consume large amounts of energy, while limiting the development of energy sources in poor countries is not only politically impractical but morally odious.

The richest one - fifth of the population, including wealthy minorities in poor countries consume energy and resources at a rate that providing a comparable lifestyle to the rest of the world's population would require the resources of four planets the size of Earth.