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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health-care costs push as many as 100 million people below this line every year, with 150 million others facing “catastrophic health-care costs,” defined as healthcare spending that consumes 40% of the household budget after basic needs have been met.

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It impacts and fragments a larger part of the wilderness, where there is 90 percent reduction of key species, like woodland caribou and grizzly bears, and it consumes even more energy, more water, and produces at least as much greenhouse gas.

It consumes about 15 watts of power.

In fact, I looked to a technology that neither stores nor generates electricity, but instead consumes electricity, huge amounts of it.

Bottom right: Bangladesh has the same population density as Bahrain, but consumes 100 times less per person.

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