5 February 2018
It may be impossible to live comfortably without trashing Earth
Yeong-Ung Yang/The New York Times/Redux/Eyevine
No countries manage to live well and sustainably. Of 151 nations that have just been rated, not a single one achieves the Goldilocks feat of doing it just right – creating a good life for its inhabitants without overusing natural resources.
“We didn’t really find a good role model of any country doing things sustainably,” says Daniel O’Neill of the University of Leeds, UK. “Our analysis is a wake-up call that we need to do things in a radically different …