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Per capita comparisons are ridiculous, when a country like Australia have a population of less than 8% of US. US is only using per capita for a few countries that are worse than them and with very low populations. Otherwise the US is the largest polluter of all categories. The truth is that the Bush administration want to use the large US coal reserves and this will be a rise in the already too high pollution. His friends does not want to have to costly cleaning solutions and liabilities. Hakan At 06:27 AM 8/16/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Correct. If CO2 is pollution then the U.S. is the biggest single >polluter. The article stated elsewhere (I got tired of transcribing) >that the reason the lawsuit is against the Australians and the U.S. is >that Australia is the largest per capita polluter and I think maybe it >said it was followed by the U.S. by that measure, and that the U.S. is >the largest polluter overall. > >The article also said that the Tuvalu Islanders (whom the article was >about) had applied for refugee status with Australia (turned down) and >New Zealand (accepted, but only 75 per year). > > > > > > >Brent, > > > >It is no dispute about that US is the largest single polluter. The argument > >is maybe more valid if used by others, but a very large amount of countries > >have decided to do their part anyway. > > > >Hakan > > > > > >At 04:49 AM 8/16/2003 +0000, you wrote: > >>I think there needs to be some clarification about some things by > someone. I > >>hear so much conflicting news. Today a story stated that the kyoto > accord is > >>usless when the biggest polluters like Assia, India, and Russia, and even > >>Brazil don't participate in the accord. These are countries with very few > >>regulations and very little desire to change. > >>Brent > >> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
