On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:27:29 -0400, Gary Coffman
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:55:38 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:58:26 +0800, Old Nick
wrote:
hmmmm...The US accounts for 30% (?? maybe it's only 20%, ot does not
matter) of the world's resource consumption, with about 5% of the
population. Imagine something like 20% of the population doing the
same.

Something you lads always forget to mention. Please add to you lineny
above..the percentage of the worlds goods provided by the US with that
30% consumption figure.

World GDP (2001 US dollars) $47,000,000,000,000
US GDP (2001 US dollars) $10,400,000,000,000

Gary

This tells me what? That we are making 20% of the goods for the
entire planet and are using 30% of its resources to do so?

Break it down so that a poor ignorant cowboy can understand it, will
ya?

How much of that 30% of the worlds hard resources, is returned to the
rest of the world, in hard goods and services, directly and
indirectly, outside of the US, is a good start in your explaination.

Gunner



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