Osmar makes some excellent points: even though 1st worlders can lay claim to the highest material consumerism, we can also lay claim to the highest rate of governmental beauracracy (sp?) when it comes to pollution caps, environmental controls, waste water treatment facilities, and the skills, education and abilities to take care of our resources. We don't have villages where people defacate in the streams. We are cutting down on everything from fertilizer-use to driveway car-washing, improving our agricultural practices (no more cows wading in streams, etc.) and our stream bank care. 1st worlders lead the way in research and technologies that improve our ability to care for the natural world -- each of you posting from a 1st world country is living proof of that. Respectfully, Kelly Stettner
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