Bolivia Nationalizes Electricity Companies in Hopes of Improving Rural Access

[NoOneMan]

1. So is this "good" or "bad"?

According to which ideology?

What is the ecological impact when every rural Bolivian can purchase and plug-in a refrigerator? Magic thinking aside, what is the ecological impact of supplying more people with cheaper energy (socialized or not)?

On a tangent, in the spirit of a simple "carrying capacity" thought, I wonder: what is the average sustainable standard of living 8 billion people can simultaneously have without causing environmental breakdown? Its a fine question to ask now that we are in the age of seeing many of these low consumption areas begin to develop and increase their consumption. It can often flip our ideas of what is "good" and "bad" upside down.

Economic and political forces--often thought of as "good"--that increase the global average standard of living may be imparting drastic consequences on our environment.