Bill Gates being no ecologist
MIT professor of mechanical engineering Timothy Gutowski recently had his students compare the energy consumption of different people in different socio-economic classes, from a homeless person to a senator. In total, 18 different lifestyles were chosen ranging from vegetarian students to pro-golfers to a five-year-old. What the researchers at MIT found was that even in the U.S. people with the lowest energy usage, a homeless person, a five-year-old and a Buddhist monk, all have a carbon footprint twice as large as the average global cit [ READ MORE... ]
