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The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint is simple, but widely misunderstood: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology (I = PAT). The global rate of consumption growth, before the pandemic, was 3% a year. Population growth is 1%. Some people assume this means that the rise in population bears one-third of the responsibility for increased consumption. But population growth is overwhelmingly concentrated among the world’s poorest people, who have scarcely any A or T to multiply their P.

Yet it is widely used as a blanket explanation of environment breakdown. Panic about population growth enables the people most responsible for the impacts of rising consumption (the affluent) to blame those who are least responsible.

(George Monbiot. www.theguardian.com, 26.08.2020. Adapted.)

The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint

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E) is often too plainly interpreted as equating population growth with an equivalent increase in ecological damage and in consumption.

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A) is inadequate because it does not capture all sides of the relation between population growth and environmental degradation.

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B) has proved inefficient to properly relate world’s population and ecological damage during the present pandemic times.

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C) has been wrongly used as the only explanation of causes for ecological breakdown.

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D) has demonstrated that a 3% rise in the world population represents 1% of the responsibility for consumption growth.

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