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This research looks into the environmental pressures and impacts that result from the consumption of goods and services in the European Union. It finds that the majority of these pressures and impacts now occur outside of the EU, while a vast majority of the economic benefits remain within the member countries. Eastern Europe, in particular, has experienced the most environmental pressures and impacts per unit of GDP as a result of EU consumption.

Clearly, they should have looked at the 200-year colonial history to really appreciate this process.

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So after a brief period of emerging market growth we’re going back to the dark old days of European dominance? Ugh…I just hope we don’t see Europeans arguing that they’re culturally superior and deserve to survive and lead the world once again.

Data analysis papers should have the data source in the abstract. Data source is central to the result.

tl:dr the data availability statement? This is good practice for data and code sharing tbh.

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"Final demand data for the 27 EU member countries, as well as global MRIO tables and environmental extensions were retrieved from the EXIOBASE v.3.8.1 database (https://zenodo.org/record/4588235)14. Coefficients for biodiversity loss from land use were collected from ref. 12. Data for calculating regional average GDPpc were retrieved from the World Development Indicators DataBank (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators)63, the World Economic Outlook (October 2022) (https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/WEO)25 and the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 (https://population.un.org/wpp/)64. For creating maps, shapefiles from Natural Earth (https://www.naturalearthdata.com/)65 and the Eurostat R package66 were used. Data for recreating the results and figures are available in the Supplementary Code. The main results are collected in the Supplementary Data."

Even the small countries in Europe think they’re culturally superior. It’ll never go away. It’s deeply ingrained into our thoughts (like elsewhere, Japan for example). Even more left-wing people in Europe think they’re culturally superior, they just go a different way about it.

Also, we will dig deep into our history to dredge up something to justify hatred of our neighbours, even if it was 200 or 600 years ago. That’s just the way Europe is

Those countries impacted are free to choose not to do business with the EU and yet... still... they do. It's almost like it's beneficial for them.

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Thanks, appreciated. I guess it's too long to include in the abs

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