Road to ruin

[Wwagsthedog]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1069883,00.html

America produces a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the population has risen by 100 million since 1970 and when an area three times the size of Britain was recently opened up for mining, drilling, logging and road building, no one took much notice. What does the Bush administration do? It ignores all attempts to curb environmental damage. In a major investigation that took him from the Salton Sea in California to Crooked Creek in Florida, Matthew Engel reports on how America is ravaging the planet

Friday October 24, 2003
The Guardian

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[LibertyorDeath]

1. Kick

[bywho4who]

2. We need some light on this!

This is a great post your on point!

[NoMoreRedInk]

3. What percentage of the world's goods and services do we produce?****

nm

[Dirk39]

4. At least it seems the USA has a big trade deficit...

importing much more than exporting, while every single U.S. citizen is using 100 times the energy the rest of the world is using on average.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. USA GDP is 21% of the world

according to the CIA factbook. So the USA is more inefficient than average.

[ILeft]

5. Road to Ruin should be the Bush-Cheney 04 campaign theme

"Al-Qaida and the Iraqi bombers have no need to bother. America is destroying itself."

...ain't that the truth.