Your “sustain-worthy-ness” is a composite “score” made up of :-
- How much of this Earth’s Lifesupports you*
are “consuming”
including how much you are “extincting” and “irreversibly-destroying” any of this Earth’s Lifesupports “deliberately” or “accidentally-co-laterally”.. [
individually and as a percentage of the World and of your National populations’ “consumption/destruction”.Note: Britain’s People
[UK 64 million total – more if you count the incoming flow of tourists’ consumption/destruction]
have been for many decades, and are still consuming, five-times more Lifesupports than this Earth can continue to provide,
and yet are still saying “we need more, we are the world-language, we are worth much more than that”[and the fact that the Americans are consuming/destroying nine-times their ‘fair-share’ of the Earth’s Lifesupports, and also believing, constituting, legislating, saying and behaving-as-if
“we need more – we’re the world’s peace-keeping police-force – we’re the best in the world – ”
that is no “petticoat” for we British to be “hiding behind”].
2. What does one-human-being “need” to maintain their-self healthy, citizenlike, and at least bio-environmentally supportive ?
(a) The UK Monarchicly Democratic Government has legislated tha £150 per week is the minimum needed by any individual entitled to reside in the UK;
but the “market-facts” show that £300 per week is hardly sufficient..
(b) But – the average UK income is many times more than £150 per week; and the total Income (adding up all the salaries, bonuses, wages, ‘perks’) averages out at more like £600 per week per head.
That makes a total of £600 x 64 million = £38,400,000,000 [Thirty-Eight and a Half Billion]
but the total UK Governmental expenditure is more like £740 billion, whilst the national income is “only” £720 billion.
(c) So now we need to “distribute” this essential life-supports-supportiveness “sustain-worthy-ness”:-
(i) clearly a person living off £150 per week is much more “sustain-worthy” than
(ii) the person who “needs” £1,500 per week [as does the average psychiatrist/ doctor/ lawyer/ middle-manager/ civil-servant/ MP/ freelancer ].
(d) The United Nations has long been operating
(at quite high cost to us all, but still ‘economising’ by excluding an “Individual Human Development Index (per person)”)
an HDI – “Human Development Index – aggregately, ‘nation vs nation’ ”
the basic equation being Longevity x Knowledge X Wealth = 1..00000
[1.000 would be the perfect ideal nation score.
We “developed” nations (USA; Japan; Germany; UK; France – {? China ? India ? Brazil ? Russia ?} and so on –
score upward from 0.80 to 0.90; whilst a “4th world” nation may be as low as 0.04 ]..
(e) Our “big skeleton-in-the-closet embarrassing Issue” has become
“How can the topmost-efficient “best” human beings be so much less “sustainworthy” than the “least-essential and lowest ‘wealthy’ ” ?
And within that overall bracket, how could the individual Briton live off his/her
“one-human-living” fair-share of the Earth’s resources
( ? namely one-fifth of £150 = £30 [being one week’s need for rent, food, clothing –
“and a whole lot more” as Sir David Attenborough said in hosting How Many People Can Live Off Planet Earth ?) ?