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United States Ecological Footprint
| I suppose this isn't surprising, given the United States is the locus of a lot of political resistance to the concept of global warming and legislation trying to prevent it, but... wow. To think that the per-capita ecological impact is quite literally double that of many developed nations... It's kind of insane.
| So what you're saying is..
We should burn more coal?
| Sources?
| USA and China need to do something about their polution
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| I've been doing a bit of reading on environmental impact by country today and found that the United States has a much higher per-capita impact on the environment than most other developed countries, including (somewhat surprisingly for me) China.
Cursory research says this is because of much greater consumption of beef as opposed to pork and fish, much more floor space per capita in homes, and resistance to energy efficient construction and technology.