Karl, I think that's right, you would expect the results before but I guess the thing is that no one had made the effort to be sure about it.
Kind of reminds me of a couple decades back there was a lot of concern about what drilling in the artic for oil might do to polar bears if there was ever a spill. So some Canadian scientists went out and dunked a bear in oil and the bear died..... There was more uproar over that then there was over drilling, but as well, as far as I know there hasn't been any new drilling in the Artic Ocean off Canada for quite a while.
So it's not so much what it is, as it is what you do with it. As Prashamk suggests the method of resolving environmental and resource degradation should be looked at. A gas tax, a flying tax, an overall consumer tax, because it's not how much you make it's how you spend it that affects the sustainability of the planet.
jimg is right, working up your social status is affecting all of us.
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