Actually if you simply look at the tonnage of waste produced by the
average individual Mexican, who lives well below what we would consider
middle class by US or European standards, and the Average Non Mexican
North American just to be politically correct, (US or Canada, take your
pick, but easily within the "Middle Class mark), you would find an
amazing parity. The difference is in what the waste is comprised of. A
very large part of the waste per capita in Mexico is spoiled food. In
the US/Canada there much less spoiled food, but much more packaging,
much of if for keeping food from spoiling.
Butch Black wrote:
>Yet, you could not believe all the trees when you were out here. I
>believe you, Marnie, the environment in San Francisco has deteriorated
>vastly in your lifetime. I on the other hand having grown up in places
>like Detroit, and Buffalo am amazed at how much better things are now.
>You can actually swim in the Great Lakes and eat the fish for instance.
>
>The same is true in the Northeast. The air is cleaner and the Charles River
>is clean enough for safe water activities
>
>Dave S wrote;
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>And how do you propose we control population growth? Implementation of
>a 2 child policy? mandatory abortions for a third pregnancy? Or maybe
>we need another world war to cull down the numbers.
>
>It's not that I disagree that the worlds population is getting out of
>hand, but it's easier to control the mechanical problem (ie pollution)
>first, then focus on global overcrowding.
>
>One significant problem is that as world population grows and becomes more
>industrialized and it's population becomes more "middle class" they produce
>more pollution and waste. The good news is at that point they seem to have
>less children. I liken world over population to keeping fish in an aquarium.
>There is an ideal amount of fish to litre capacity. You can safely exceed
>that a bit with good filtration and diligent housekeeping of the tank. At
>some point the population becomes too much for the tank, but everything
>seems to be ok. Then you add another fish, or miss a couple tank cleanings,
>all Hell breaks loose and you loose a lot of the fish. The world's
>population has tripled in my lifetime (born in 1951) That's 3x the mouths to
>feed and my understanding is a significant amount of those go hungry. My
>point is that it is a complex, many faceted problem that is not going to be
>solved by focusing on just ones aspect of the problem
>
>My 2ยข
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>I'll get off my soapbox now
>
>Butch
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