Raymond Arritt wrote: > 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.
This is one of those truths that are totally misleading. Population density in the US, Australia and Canada is concentrated in urban areas. If you actually look at where people live, the density is as high for the US and Europe (PS think of densly populated Sweden and Finland). A really good way to see the point is to look at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html Eli Rabett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
