Provisioning decent living standards for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for other social investments. (www.sciencedirect.com)

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

Definition of decent living standard used in the paper.

[-] socphoenix@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago

Specifically from their table:

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

If I had to superimpose my feelings on top of this, I'd increase dwelling area to 80 sqm and laptops/computers to 2 per household. 🥲

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Even 80 sqm is cramped for the 4 people they suggest.

If they could double the floorspace, water heating, and computing, i honestly would maintain my current standard of living. Well, except presumably with meat cut out of my diet which isn't really a loss, I'd just have to replan my diet.

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