Global utility includes the above two things (first two tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy) not just counting the number of deaths (where I agree health-related deaths are the biggest bracket).
I consider US govt partially responsible for unequal distribution.
Neither the mortality-rate nor the energy-use map lines up that closely with the US geopolitical sphere of influence. (E.g. Russia and China on the one hand, Latin America on the other.)
I’m not saying the US government isn’t partially responsible for unequal distribution, but your previous comment sounds like treating it as the only or primary significant factor.
(I’m also not sure what point you’re trying to make at all with the energy-use map, given how similar it looks to the mortality-rate map.)
Russia and China obviously have significant crude oil reserves which they use domestically. They get to keep them instead of exporting to someone because they have nuclear weapons.
All of industry is ultimately based on a few resources such as crude oil, coal and water. These are then used to make steel and electricity which are then used to make industrial supplies for chemicals and so on.
So a shortage of drugs or of roads or of hospitals does indirectly tie into the energy use of the country.
This period of global safety is not fairly distributed,
But it is also real
https://data.unicef.org/resources/levels-and-trends-in-child-mortality-2024/
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Energy use per capita
Global utility includes the above two things (first two tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy) not just counting the number of deaths (where I agree health-related deaths are the biggest bracket).
I consider US govt partially responsible for unequal distribution.
Neither the mortality-rate nor the energy-use map lines up that closely with the US geopolitical sphere of influence. (E.g. Russia and China on the one hand, Latin America on the other.)
I’m not saying the US government isn’t partially responsible for unequal distribution, but your previous comment sounds like treating it as the only or primary significant factor.
(I’m also not sure what point you’re trying to make at all with the energy-use map, given how similar it looks to the mortality-rate map.)
I’m not claiming it’s the only factor.
Russia and China obviously have significant crude oil reserves which they use domestically. They get to keep them instead of exporting to someone because they have nuclear weapons.
All of industry is ultimately based on a few resources such as crude oil, coal and water. These are then used to make steel and electricity which are then used to make industrial supplies for chemicals and so on.
So a shortage of drugs or of roads or of hospitals does indirectly tie into the energy use of the country.