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Cecil is not here to comment so I will report that the value the average rural family gets from the environment is much more than the cash income of one or two dollars a day. </div>
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>From this flow two things: moving a rural family to an urban conurbation at the same salary, or even double, deepens their poverty; and the cost of stabilising a family in a city is 5 times the cost of stabilising them in a rural area. </div>
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Stabilising, he says, means a house, job, water, roads, school, health care and fuel. </div>
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The reduction of 'poverty' to a metric of cash income can hide massive differences in real world living standard. </div>
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So far I haven't seen a metric that is suitable for measuring 'living standard'. </div>
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<div><b>From: </b>Anand Karve</div>
<div><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, July 12, 2014 10:43</div>
<div><b>To: </b>Kevin; Discussion of biomass cooking stoves</div>
<div><b>Reply To: </b>Discussion of biomass cooking stoves</div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Stoves] World Population and Daily Income</div>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear Stovers,<br>
US$2 per day per person means about US$10 per family of 5. That is<br>
good income in any developing country.<br>
Yours<br>
A.D.Karve<br>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Kevin <kchisholm@ca.inter.net> wrote:<br>
> This video Clip<br>
> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LPjzfGChGlE">http://www.youtube.com/embed/LPjzfGChGlE</a><br>
> is about US Immigration Policy.<br>
><br>
> World population is about 7.2 billion people (<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population</a> )<br>
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> The Video Clip states that about 3 billion people earn an average of LESS<br>
> than $2 per day. Expressed in different terms, 41.6% of the World Population<br>
> earns less than $2 per day.<br>
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> This brings up 2 interesting questions:<br>
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> 1: ===> What can biochar do for these people, and what would it have to<br>
> cost, to be affordable to them?<br>
> 2: ===> What kind of stoves do these people really need, and how much must<br>
> they be delivered for, in order for them to be a sensible investment?<br>
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> Kevin<br>
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