Why do the US insist on polluting more then all. Greed? Problems with awareness? What about your kids?
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It is interesting how so many people are always ready to bash America, including those who live in American. Consider the following facts with the sources cited for your review.\n\n-China far exceeds the rest of the world's executions with 3400 in 2004.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty#Global_distribution_of_death_penalty\n-Columbia has the highest Murder rate per capita (0.618/1000) by far of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita\n-Iceland is the Most Corrupt country in the world (rated a 9.7 on a scale from 0-10).\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_cor-government-corruption\n-Dominica has the highest Total Crime Rate per Capita (113/1000) of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita\n-Norway, followed by Switzerland and New Zealand, has the highest Drug Offenses of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_dru_off-crime-drug-offences\n\nBut, let’s consider Pollution:\n-Denmark produces more kilograms of waste per person per year than any other country; the -Netherlands is the second highest waste generator per person per year.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_was_gen-environment-waste-generation\n-Israel is by far the greatest Fresh Water polluter in the world, followed by Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, etc. The USA is not even in the top 20.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_wat_fre_pol-environment-water-freshwater-pollution\n-Canada, followed by the UK, Sweden, France, Finland, Belgium and Switzerland, has the highest pollution of Nuclear Waste per capita of any countries in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_pol_nuc_was_per_cap-pollution-nuclear-waste-per-capita\n\nNow, let’s consider a few facts about the USA.\n-USA has by far the highest Purchasing Power Parity of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gdp_ppp-economy-gdp-ppp\n-USA has by far the highest Gross Domestic Product of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gdp-economy-gdp-nominal\n-USA has the largest Navy, Air Force, and Weapons Holdings of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/cat/mil-military\n-USA has the highest number of Education years of Adult Schooling of any country in the world.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_ave_yea_of_sch_of_adu-education-average-years-schooling-adults\n-USA has won the highest number of Summer Olympic Medals (2116 medals) of any other country, with the second highest being the UK with only 638 medals.\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/graph/spo_sum_oly_med_all_tim-summer-olympic-medals-all-time\nWell, if I continue with the FACTS, someone will just accuse me of being an arrogant American. So, to answer your question, most Americans are not overly concerned with greed. However, the biggest worry many Americans do have is that our kids will be polluted by European leftist liberalism.
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How many people across the globe still consider us the most powerful country as it is? Our reputation is dwindling. (If you ask me, the current administration shoulders the biggest share of blame for this.) Headlines such as "EVERY NATION ON EARTH SIGNS KYOTO AGREEMENT; US REFUSES" are not enhancing our popularity. It's time to stop resting on our laurels.
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My question is, 'why is it america's job to wipe the world's ass'?\nSeriously. How many more trillions are we supposed to spend fixing other countries' problems? What are YOU trying to sign the american taxpayer up for, exactly? LOL Screw that. Africa needs to discover 'birth control'. Sorry if that sounds cold-blooded, but \nquite frankly, at some point in time, other nations have got to get their acts together, and work to defend their own societies from these kinds of things. If they can't/won't, what exactly do you expect america to do about it? Maybe the bitter, correct answer is LESS foreign aid so there's less people able to live in countries that won't normally support their populations. Stop giving out money, and get people in the mind-set of not having more kids than they can support. Can't feed em? Don't breed em. Pretty straightforward, there...
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Yes...just one of many "concerns". More is happening than most people realize. The US is,  of course,  working on all of it continuously. The task would be easier I'm sure....with less whining and complaining from it's own citizens.
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Have you tested the levels of pollutants that bus or car is putting out?  How about the water you drink?  Or the mountains of waste produced by the office you work at?  How far away do you live from a chemical factory? Or a nuke plant?  Where is all the garbage going that you and your family produce?  How about the food colorings and additives?\n\nAnd you're worried about some cigarette smoke?\n\n\nPULLLLLEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSEE!!\n\nPeace.
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Why are you asking the same question over and over again? I checked your profile for recently asked questions, and your latest 1 has been asked 5 times in a row. I understand you excitement about fuel from water, because quite frankly I feel the same way, given that we are so close to no longer needing to rely on fossil and nuclear and living fuels. We are so close to being able to reverse the damage we have done to this beautiful planet. We are so close to eliminating poverty, malnutrition and disease. We are so close to world peace, harmony and unity. Our job now is to first apply it to our own lives, demonstrating by example that it works and it's safe and cheap, and then help others to do the same. Telling people that it is available will not be nearly as effective as showing them by driving down the street in a car that everyone can see is running on water. spread the word BY acting as an example. In the words of Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see in the world!" Blessed Be.
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do you live in the USA? well i think that we should take care of our own first unlike what we currently do! we need to stop spending billions upon billions of American dollars over seas and our space projects and take care of home first ..... then worry about everything else..... the USA should not have a homless population muchless starving familes!
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From personal viewings, I would say it is very polluted especially in the United States (too many cars!) and other major countries.\n\nIn other countries where automobiles are not as plentiful, it is not as much a problem, but it continues to be on the rise.
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The governments with the money - US, Great Britain, and China - seem not to care that much. The US has been taken over by multinationals whose bottom line is money. Protecting the environment seems not to be profitable. The mulitnationals have bought the government and thus have gutted all the protection earlier governments have put in place. Yes, the planet has significant problems. \n\nGlobal warming is real. Read Kim Stanley Robinson's books _40 Signs of Rain_ and _50 Degrees Below_ (another one should be out to finish the trilogy soon). We have to understand that we must work as a global people. \n\nI hope that we can do that soon.
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Why do Americans not keep America clean?
228509
to make sure that our planet doesnt get polluted so much with trash, and to conserve more of our resources. duh.
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I am very concerned with the rash of natural disasters that are happening and can only really attribute them to global warming. Our planet has the ability to "rebuild" the ozone, but not quickly enough at the rate we are depleting it. I think as Americans and as a consumer nation, we need to get on the clue train about how much we are harming our world by car emmisions and we need to switch to a clean alternative. It's possible, but we fear change.
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According to the government, because trying to enforce pollution caps doesn't work while researching new sources of energy will. And because it's bad for business.\n\nAccording to everyone else, because it's bad for business. Companies have to spend more money and cut back on their profits. So they don't want to do it. And they have enough power in the government to prevent the US from signing.
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Because they are greedy. Instead of preserving the planet, they want to build or drill for oil. They think there is more money in that than in tourism. No all caring is not wrong. They just want you to think it's wrong. They are the ones who are wrong. Why destroy where you live? This is the only planet we have, we should be preserving it not destroying it.
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IN a convoluted way, you are making a very good point. Isn't it sad that we change only when forced to? Our consumption of oil is/has produced profound changes to our world...a world that we have no choice but to live in. The greenhouse effect is growing daily, the powers-that-be are so short sighted they do nothing in the serious face of reality. WE are in for some very drastic consequences of our use of oil, and the entire planet will pay heavily for it shortly. In our lifetime, absolutely.
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Because most Democrats cannot wait for America to join the EU with it's liberal governmental practices. They don't give a care about the environment or else they all would be driving Hybrids and living in Solar Assisted homes. They wish to see "the rest" of the world be in greater control of our energy policy (Kyoto Accord - bless Bush for keeping us OUT) our economic policy and our court system. Why all the demonstrations over global warming rather than direct action like night random attacks of tree and shrubbery plantings? Democrats only want to think for us because we cannot think for ourselves. We cannot spend for ourselves so they want to tax our dollars from us and spend them on what they think we need. Hillary would even take the choice of physician from us, yet let 14 year old girls kill unborn children. They have the perfect vision of a completely controlled people.
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There is not a consistent policy about global warming because no country wants to limits it own industrial capabilities to prevent pollution. The US agreed to the Kyoto Accords but now finds ways to side-step their obligation. How can any group of countries punish the US? Too many factors such as the national economies of small countries depend on the US for trade to force Washington to comply. But one thing is certain and that is that there is no agreement as to global warming even amongst the scientific community. It is being used by politicians as a gimmick to sway opinions. Before Al Gore didn't much worry about global warming but found it useful to take votes from Republicans and so there was sudden attention.Are you certain that there is indeed global warming? I realize that people have been tugging at the issue for years, but there is no substantial proof that this warming effect is not a cyclical phenomena. We have no proof about the last 50,000 years from the estimated period of the Ice Age. Counting tree rings is hardly an answer and the oldest know trees are less than 3,000 years...perhaps this situation occurs every ten thousand years. Fossils date much further back and we know that some cataclysmic event, a massive volcano or perhaps even a meteorite created so much dust that the earth was blanketed and brought about the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs. That took place about 65,000,000 years ago...just days ago, Norwegian paleontologists announced the discovery of a dinosaur 'graveyard' with the fossils of ichthyosaurs and pleisosaurs (perhaps cousins of the Loch Ness Monster) on an Island about 800 miles from the North Pole. Because both types of dinosaurs were marine (living in salt water), we then can assume they died in the water...but the 'graveyard' is now situated on a hillside some distance from the sea, but also that the water level was much higher at that time...Global Warming? Island can rise and sink because of volcanic activity but the island shows no geological suggestion that that was so. Perhaps too, this is a natural event in that as the temperature increases, so does evaporation and thusly more rain, so could it be that it is a cleansing system to remove pollutants from the atmosphere? There are many far-fetched theories and one is from Australia where scientists claim that cows are a major source of pollution. Herbivores produce methane gas as they digest grasses, fodder and such, and with the vast number of cows and other herbivores, our atmosphere is contaminated. It makes little sense as in America were vast herds of bison, and the plains of Africa still have millions of grazing animals...both past and present. The die-off of marine organisms is often linked to man-made problems...oil spills, dredging, sewage and such...i.e. the Thames River of England was so polluted years ago that no fish could exist...the environmental agency cleaned it up by stopping sewage, etc and now 10 species of fish have returned. We build dams and prevent floods and deprive vital nutrients to the sea. In Asia, DDT was introduced to protect the crops and successfully killed many species of fish and birds (most potent when used with oil as the solvent). Few people understand that a tree does many things besides provide wood, it retains soil but also transpires a substantial amount of moisture into the air...and we cut down the forests. We cover vast areas with tarmac and concrete and deaden the soil. On my last visit to Mt. Kilimanjaro, I noticed the reduction of the ice caps and glaciers but I didn't come away with any firm conviction of a drastic change. In Tibet, I visited the glacial rivers but they seemed much unchanged, and the peak of Mt. Everest seems to have the same amount of snow and ice. The only tangible proof I have found is that some of the tropical marine life in the Sea of Cortez have move further north, but that could be explained by a shifting of currents, rather than an