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← Pollution is a price worth paying for escaping poverty only if the people breathing it are the ones who escape.

17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 13 Dec 1968 to 3 Sept 2026.

Everything filed under sustainability sustainability Everything filed under animal welfare animal welfare Everything filed under capitalism capitalism Everything filed under climate change climate change Everything filed under AI alignment AI alignment Everything filed under energy energy Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Pollution is a price worth paying for escaping poverty only if the people breathing it are the ones who escape. Pollution is a price worth paying forescaping poverty only if the peoplebreathing it are the ones who escape. Last stated a year ago 29 Jul 2025 OK Oliver Kim — holds since 2025-07-29 — tap for who they are Same subject: There is no known escape from poverty other than climbing the global value chain. — tap to centre the map on it There is no known escape frompoverty other than climbing theglobal value chain. Last stated a year ago 29 Jul 2025 OK Oliver Kim — holds since 2025-07-29 — tap for who they are Same subject: The climate policy everyone has quietly assumed is that poorer countries stay poor, and that is the wrong answer. — tap to centre the map on it The climate policy everyone hasquietly assumed is that poorercountries stay poor, and that is thewrong answer. Last stated 3 years ago 11 Oct 2023 CH Casey Handmer — holds since 2023-10-11 — tap for who they are BM Branko Milanovic — holds since 2017-11-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: The cognitive costs of air pollution are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasised -- most EPA materials do not mention them at all. — tap to centre the map on it The cognitive costs of air pollutionare almost certainly stillsignificantly under-emphasised --most EPA materials do not mentionthem at all. Last stated 7 years ago by 18 Nov 2019 PC Patrick Collison — holds since 2019-11-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: Moving money out of global health and into existential risk is a gamble paid for with lives that could have been saved now. — tap to centre the map on it Moving money out of global healthand into existential risk is agamble paid for with lives thatcould have been saved now. Last stated 3 years ago 21 Dec 2023 MJ Matt Johnson — holds since 2023-12-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: Exporting natural resources can lift a country out of poverty and cannot make it rich. — tap to centre the map on it Exporting natural resources can lifta country out of poverty and cannotmake it rich. Last stated a year ago 14 Jul 2025 NS Noah Smith — holds since 2025-07-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: Breaking the trade-off between prosperity and the environment is an opportunity rather than something that will happen on its own. — tap to centre the map on it Breaking the trade-off betweenprosperity and the environment is anopportunity rather than somethingthat will happen on its own. Last stated 10 months ago 9 Dec 2025 HR Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-12-09 — tap for who they are Same subject: An economy needs lots of energy consumption in order to escape poverty. — tap to centre the map on it An economy needs lots of energyconsumption in order to escapepoverty. Last stated 2 months ago 3 Sept 2026 NS Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: Comparing a poor country’s GDP with South Korea’s at independence is a shallow argument that hides the differences that actually decided the outcome. — tap to centre the map on it Comparing a poor country’s GDP withSouth Korea’s at independence is ashallow argument that hides thedifferences that actually decidedthe outcome. Last stated 2 years ago 21 Jan 2025 OK Oliver Kim — no longer holds since 2025-01-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it A finite world can support only afinite population, so populationgrowth must eventually reach zero Last stated 58 years ago 13 Dec 1968 GH Garrett Hardin — holds since 1968-12-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth — tap to centre the map on it A primitive science of insectcontrol has armed itself with modernweapons and turned them against theearth RC Rachel Carson — holds since c. 1962 — tap for who they are Same subject: A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less. — tap to centre the map on it A romantic, low-yield farming systemwould need far more land and wouldproduce more hunger, not less. Last stated 3 years ago 28 May 2023 GM George Monbiot — holds since 2023-05-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: Beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging farm products there are. — tap to centre the map on it Beef and lamb are the mostland-hungry and climate-damagingfarm products there are. Last stated a year ago 12 May 2025 GM George Monbiot — holds since 2025-05-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm. — tap to centre the map on it Cheap clean energy has broken theold trade-off between raising livingstandards and cutting environmentalharm. Last stated 10 months ago 9 Dec 2025 CH Casey Handmer — holds since 2023-10-11 — tap for who they are HR Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-12-09 — tap for who they are Same subject: Feeding humanity without wrecking the climate will take engineered food, and squeamishness about technology in food is the thing to get over. — tap to centre the map on it Feeding humanity without wreckingthe climate will take engineeredfood, and squeamishness abouttechnology in food is the thing toget over. Last stated 4 years ago 17 Jan 2023 MG Michael Grunwald — holds since 2023-01-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: The human cost of factory farming, to slaughterhouse workers and above all to the environment, is staggering — tap to centre the map on it The human cost of factory farming,to slaughterhouse workers and aboveall to the environment, isstaggering Last stated 17 years ago 27 Oct 2009 NP Natalie Portman — holds since 2009-10-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending. — tap to centre the map on it Effective altruism's work on the farfuture is not a bait and switchhiding behind its work on globalhealth; both halves are worthdefending. Last stated 3 years ago 28 Nov 2023 SA Scott Alexander — holds since 2023-11-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age — tap to centre the map on it Factory farming of animals will belooked back on as a relic of aless-evolved age Last stated 17 years ago 27 Oct 2009 NP Natalie Portman — holds since 2009-10-27 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Pollution is a price worth paying for escaping poverty only if the people breathing it are the ones who escape. Last stated 29 Jul 2025 · a year ago Holds Oliver Kim Read this korrent →