Life At The Peak

Bradford Plumer describes the Environmentalist's Paradox: humanity doing better while the Earth does worse. Dave Roberts expands on that thought:

There's no contradiction in noting that coal is both bringing peopleout of poverty in China and insuring the suffering of future Chinese.Today the net welfare gains of coal use in China seem greater than thenet losses, but that's only because the gains are immediate and thelosses are deferred for a while. In our lifetimes, that will change --the...