Alastair McDonald wrote:
> When are you Yanks going to realise that global warming is a global
> problem, and that if you are going to continue being insular and
> chauvinistic, then the problem will not be solved? That means that
> not only the global climate be destroyed, but so will that of the USA.
Per capita greenhouse-gas emissions for the US are essentially the same
as those for Canada and lower than those for Australia, suggesting that
you hold some of your ire in reserve for the wastrel denizens of those
countries as well as the US.
More constructively, let's look at what those three countries have in
common: they're all very highly-developed economies yet have
significant agricultural sectors, and they all have low population
densities. It may be fun to toss invective at one nation or another,
but it would be more interesting from a scientific point of view to
understand why these countries are high per-capita emitters and what are
the most feasible ways for them to reduce their emissions (IPCC WGIII,
anyone?).
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