Rich nations' environmental footprints tread heavily on poor countries

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The environmental impacts of high- middle- and low-income nations fall on other income tiers as indicated by the footprints. The numbers are in trillions of 2005 international dollars. Credit: Thara SrinivasanUC Berkeley
The environmental impacts of high-, middle- and low-income nations fall on other income tiers, as indicated by the footprints. The numbers are in trillions of 2005 international dollars. Credit: Thara Srinivasan/UC Berkeley

The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological footprints.


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