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...nation must spend about 1% of its gross national product every year on environmental safeguards, or a total of $195 billion. Most of the money will be paid by consumers, as industries and state and local governments pass along the costs of antipollution equipment. Last year the annual per capita charge for environmental protection was $35 to $40; in 1976 it will probably rise...
...while today transactions are on a more complex level, the classic mercantile relationship--finished goods traded by developed nations for natural resources supplied by developing nations--remains intact, and the worldwide gap between rich and poor widens. By 1970, says MIT economics professor Paul Rosenstein-Roden, the per capita income of the poorest countries was one-fortieth that of the rich countries. And Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank, predicts that by the year 2000 "masses of the poor (who by that time will total two and one quarter billion) will on average receive less than $200 per capita...
Sullivan said he would support a revenue sharing program between the city and the state based on per capita income and the amount of taxes collected from the city...
Lester R. Brown, a food expert at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C., has suggested that if Americans cut their annual consumption of beef, pork and poultry - currently estimated at 238 lbs. per capita - by only 10%, they could supply the rest of the world with an additional 12 million tons of grain to feed the globe's hungry people...
...living in the developed nations rise, their citizens not only waste food and feed millions of tons of it to pets, but they increasingly eat their food in forms that enormously burden the earth's agriculture. People in developing countries eat roughly 400 Ibs. of grain per capita annually (barely more than the pound daily they need for survival), mostly in the form of bread or gruel; but an American consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient...