Re: Politically Correct Description of the Third World

[Erik Reuter]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:47:03AM -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> 
> 
> Erik Reuter wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:56:07PM +1300, Bob Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > > and availability of basic health care was a factor(:>). And why is
> > > the richest country with 4% of the world popln consuming 26% of the
> > > world's resources ranked behind Canada and Norway?
> > 
> > Was this statistic on the cited website? Where does this number come
> > from?
> > 
> 
> >From CIA World Factbook
> (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html):
> 
> World Population 6.08 E9
> U.S. Population 0.275 E9
> U.S. Percentage: 4.52%
> 
> World Energy Consumption: 12.34 E9 Kwh
> U.S. Consumption 3.37 E9 Kwh
> U.S. Percentage 27.26%
> 
> Figures from the field listings section of the factbook. I calculated the
> percentages.

Thanks for the figures. However, if that is Bob's source, he seriously
misquoted. Energy consumption does not equal world's resources.  I'm
not claiming that Bob is wrong, but these figures do not support his
statement.



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