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It may be impossible to live comfortably without trashing Earth

By Andy Coghlan

5 February 2018

People in New York

Do you have to destroy nature to be this happy?

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 of the University of Leeds, UK. “Our analysis is a wake-up call that we need to do things in a radically different way if we…

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