Comments on: Environmental Performance Index http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/environmental-performance-index/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:04:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joaquin Orrantia http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/environmental-performance-index/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 Joaquin Orrantia Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:17 +0000 http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/environmental-performance-index/#comment-1517 Ecuador was ranked 22th ??? or not?? Ecuador was ranked 22th ??? or not??

]]> By: Mattias Aldaron http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/environmental-performance-index/comment-page-1/#comment-1516 Mattias Aldaron Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:41:19 +0000 http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/environmental-performance-index/#comment-1516 EPI is what happens when you uncouple actual level of environmental impacts, by population or by raw numbers, and run it by country instead. The 25% climate change seems to be good but not the other ones. I feel this is another intellectual: "Oh we in the west are doing all we can. We are so good. Let's go help those poor people in africa". While in raw numbers and/or weighted by population we pollute on the order of thousands to million times more. I wish people, and especially intellectuals, would stop doing this kind of feel good stuff. We have a real problem and we need to deal with it. EPI is what happens when you uncouple actual level of environmental impacts, by population or by raw numbers, and run it by country instead. The 25% climate change seems to be good but not the other ones.

I feel this is another intellectual: “Oh we in the west are doing all we can. We are so good. Let’s go help those poor people in africa”. While in raw numbers and/or weighted by population we pollute on the order of thousands to million times more.

I wish people, and especially intellectuals, would stop doing this kind of feel good stuff. We have a real problem and we need to deal with it.

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