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Those kids won't use up nearly as many resources as a western child.



Oh, they would. Western kids won't hunt elephants to extinction or make charcoal out of rainforest.

Western kids are going to live their life in their tiny home, which is going to become more and more green and self-sufficient.

On the other hand, poor subsistence farmers live on large swaths of land with lots of wildlife, which they're going eat literally.

And then they'll try to recapture western standards of living, but without all that green concern. Won't they?


You really have no idea how a lot of the world live.




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