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This spending consumes a large proportion of poorer households’ income, precludes more productive household investments, creates few jobs, and often remains untaxed, as doctors and hospitals are frequently paid under the counter.

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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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