Comments on: The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)- Developing countries and SD

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By: RGiggey

RGiggey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:06:24 +0000

Thanks Saad, you were very clear.

By: saadabdalla

saadabdalla — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:38:23 +0000

Rob,

the reference i make in the post is that the US is there at the threshold but are no where near following the trend the curve is predicting . in other words , they are more like the N curve where they are growing the pollution again and using more and more energy ….

to add to this , speaking to Jeremy he mentioned the M curve which another extension to the N curve and is when developed nations such as the US would again reach another level of GDP ( allowing it as a measure here ) and a level of non-sustainability again to prompt them to react and reduce the bad stuff again.

thanks for pointing out the mis-wording there and i hope this is more clear to read….

Saad

By: RGiggey

RGiggey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:25:58 +0000

Saad, hate to do this after all of your hard work, but you mentioned the threshold of $8000 per capita GDP, and that the US isn’t there yet. Am I mistaken or is the US GDP per captia more like $45,000 (and somehow Cyprus is ahead of them – must be the olives)?

excuse the wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

However, the stats I provided earlier still ring true in the number of countries that would not hit this mark, and according to this table only 90 countries in the world make it.