Green survey is all backwards....
Gee, where would you rather live - in the countries at the top of this green list, or at the bottom???
That cold water bath many Indians have because there's no electricity...that 'matka' they use because they can't afford a fridge...and the long walk they take to work and back because private transport is expensive and public transport shoddy. There's an upside to the hard life.In fact, the greenest countries are the wealthiest - they're the countries that can afford limits on pollution, recycling, etc.
Indians may be green with envy at the consumption-driven lifestyle in the West, but their own frugal ways and modest means have catapulted them to the top spot in the world's Green index, making them the most environmental-friendly denizens of Planet Earth.
The second annual survey conducted by the National Geographic Society and international polling firm GlobeScan on environmentally sustainable behaviour, the results of which were released on Wednesday, showed that Indian consumers have overtaken Brazilians to take the top spot with a Greendex score of 59.5. The Chinese retained the third spot with 55.2. At the bottom of the ladder in the 17-country survey are over-consumptive Americans (43.7), Canadians (43.5) and Japanese (49.3).
So, what has put Indians at the top of the Green ladder? It was driven by above-average performance on all four sub-indices, including first-place rankings for food and goods. Indians are the most frequent consumers of self-grown food, with 35% eating what they grow several times a week or daily. Desis are also the least frequent consumers of beef, which requires greater energy to grow—only 22% consume beef weekly compared to an average of 63% for the 17 countries surveyed.
Indian consumers also topped the goods sub-index score. Their top status is due in part to having lower-than-average rates of ownership of large appliances and electronics. Also, the rate of those buying used goods, avoiding environmentally unfriendly products and excessive packaging, and buying environmentally friendly products is the highest.
posted by GayandRight @ 9:36 AM
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I suppose none of these researchers ever set foot in that country, because if they did, they'd know the air is so polluted you'd be coughing up dark matter for many weeks after returning from it. My daughter and her boyfriend just returned from there and boy, did they have some respiratory problems! Nice and green!
Erwin Erwin Erwin, Green is not about pollution it is who is closer to the stone age the left find so appealing, you know "one with nature" stuff, usually in the stomach of a predator they thought they could negotiate with.
Rather than get our knickers in a knot over the musings of some unknown, irrelevant greenie organization, just look at which direction the immigration flows.
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