According to researchers at the University of California–Berkeley, the environmental damage wreaked on poorer countries amounts to more than the entire third world debt of $1.8 trillion dollars. The study used data from the World Bank and UN to estimate the unpaid costs of greenhouse gas emissions, ozone layer depletion, agriculture, deforestation, overfishing and shrimp farming.
You might get a kick out of seeing how I framed this in Science Progress yesterday. Reading Amor Mundi has obviously had tangible benefits for my intellectual health (and my career).
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