TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, HELP SAVE THE WORLD

 

I have called many times for an index of GDDP (Gross Domestic Disproduct) to measure the human and natural wastes that accompany the production of goods and services measured by Gross Domestic Product.  This could help offset the fact that we go stumbling along producing goods and services with no thought to the limits of natural resources. Remembering Jimmy Carter, we remember how he urged Americans to limit individual power consumption: “TURN OFF LIGHTS,” he said.  This is an example of what I call the law of marginal futulity.  Suppose we do turn off ights in our individual homes; who is going to turn off the lights in Las Vegas?  Who is even going to imagine that the lights of Las Vegas are the tip of the ice berg of our problem with assigning values and costs to using resources?

Jimmy Carter’s Complicated Environmental Legacy, By Nitish Pahwa

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/jimmy-carter-death-environmental-legacy-climate-change.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/climatechange

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