English - Answer questions from 3 Articles Article

English - Answer questions from 3 Articles - Article Examplees how the onus must be on true countries to take the lead in combating rampant over-consumption, because it is these countries that ar over-consuming. Furthermore, these practices of overconsumption create problems in developing countries climate change, for instance, has a global impact despite being caused almost entirely by developed countries.2. The most significant impact the article The Last Empire by Jacques Leslie is the inherent idea that the current world order expects so-called developing countries to never truly develop, and if they did the quality of life in so-called developed countries would drop perceptibly meaning that not only do industrialized nations have an flimsy incentive to keep developing countries down, they can actually only afford their quality of life on the backs of developing countries. China is one of the few countries, on with Brazil and India, to truly have developed in the past thirt y years with its economy, and consumption, skyrocketing. This increased consumption has led to vast increases in commodity prices, as more and more food, for instance, had to be imported from abroad (Leslie). Now, if Chinas economy improving alone could do that, imagine how drastic the increase in commodity prices, and thus decrease in standard of living, would be caused by the rest of the developing world improving.3. The main point of Rethinking the Meat Guzzler by Mark Bittman is that the cost of raising meat for consumption is absurdly high, and is increasing at an exponential rate. But by far the most significant fount of his argument is that the raising of livestock puts a great deal of pressure on grain and energy production, meaning in essence meat, and meat eaters are taking resources away from people who need them. According to Bittman, nearly 30 percent of the earths ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved with livestock production and