The greenest countries are the poorest

by Tony Totem on May 08, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Greendex map
The National Geographic Society and the polling firm GlobeScan wrote down a list of the most environmentally friendly nations.

The survey includes consumers of 14 countries (you can see them on this map), and measures consumers’ progress toward environmentally sustainable consumption. It highlights people behavior in four key areas, such as housing, transportation, food, and consumer goods.

Brazil and India are the greenest, while the United States kept the lowest score.

According to Michael Brower, environmental consultant and co-author of the Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists, “it appears to be a kind of inverse poverty scale. When you look at the map you can see that the poorest countries are ranked the best, and the richest are ranked the worst. The poorest people in the poorest countries would love to consume more”.


Filed Under Environment, Research, World Health


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  1. Duccio on May 9, 2008 9:32 am

    As far as I concerned, the poorest countries are on the top of this list because they can’t consume more: in fact, if they had so many resources how the richest nations have, they would be more aloft. The situation could change if the richest countries surrendered resources to the poorest and effected a politics for the environment: if this happened, a list of the most environmentally friendly nations wuold be not exist and there would be no distinction among the richest and the poorest. As it says the Boss, “waitin’ when the last should be first and the first should be last”…

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