00:00People give the example of Europe. They say, see, in the middle of the last century, Europe was as polluted
00:07as India and China currently are.
00:10Look at the Ganga today and look at the condition of Thames in the 1950s. They say, not much difference.
00:17But Europe progressed more materially and more material growth was the answer to pollution. That's their line of reasoning.
00:27So they say that if you want to overcome the problems facing Earth today, the solution is not less consumption,
00:35but more consumption.
00:36What they forget is the difference between a local optimum and a global optimum.
00:42Europe is clean today, yes, but at what cost to the rest of the world?
00:46So that kind of logic is misplaced.
00:50If the rest of the world starts following the standards of America or Canada or Europe or Japan, then we'll
00:57have unremitting scale of disaster.
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