• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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      16 days ago

      It says if everyone in the USA lived the way they already do, we’d need 5.1 Earths worth of resources, but if only everyone in India lived the way they do in the USA, we’d only need 0.8 Earths.

      From this we can tell there are 6.375 times as many people living in the USA than in India.

      It’s a perfectly reasonable in every way!

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        16 days ago

        Maybe a slight misunderstanding… If everyone in the WORLD lived the way people do in the US then we need 5.1 earths. If everyone in the WORLD lived the way people do in India then we would need less. Makes sense to me.

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        everyone in the usa is already living like they already are?

        i think there meant “if everyone lived like X residents” and each line in the chart replaces X?

        oh but the worpd is 1.75 ? that doesn’t make sense… should be 1? unless it’s something about being sustainable

    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.au
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      It means if all people on Earth lived using as many resources as they do in those countries we would need X times the amount of resources than Earth can provide.