U.S. Given Poor Marks on the Environment
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By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: January 23, 2008
WASHINGTON — A new international ranking of environmental performance puts the United States at the bottom of the Group of 8 industrialized nations and 39th among the 149 countries on the list.
European nations dominate the top places in the ranking, which evaluates sanitation, greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural policies, air pollution and 20 other measures to formulate an overall score, with 100 the best possible.
The top 10 countries, with scores of 87 or better, were led by Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The others at the top were Austria, France, Latvia, Costa Rica, Colombia and New Zealand, the leader in the 2006 version of the analysis, which is conducted by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities.
“We are putting more weight on climate change,” said Daniel Esty, the report’s lead author, who is the director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. “Switzerland is the most greenhouse gas efficient economy in the developed world,” he said, in part because of its use of hydroelectric power and its transportation system, which relies more on trains than individual cars or trucks.
The United States, with a score of 81.0, he noted, “is slipping down,” both because of low scores on three different analyses of greenhouse gas emissions and a pervasive problem with smog. The country’s performance on a new indicator that measures regional smog, he said, “is at the bottom of the world right now.”
He added, “The U.S. continues to have a bottom-tier performance in greenhouse gas emissions.”
Perhaps I’m too easily amused… could be because I work in INSURANCE… but I thought it was funny and for the record, I’m still snickering under my breath. So there.
~shrug~
Maybe “somebody” is jealoussss? cough cough Not Funny cough cough
Jealous of what? i blog anonymously on an insurance website. and so do you. it’s like we’re all tied for last place….and now among us we’re just deciding who really is the biggest loser.
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Yea, I think Reason got the wrong idea. His imposter was the funny one, not him.
U.S. Given Poor Marks on the Environment
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By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: January 23, 2008
WASHINGTON — A new international ranking of environmental performance puts the United States at the bottom of the Group of 8 industrialized nations and 39th among the 149 countries on the list.
European nations dominate the top places in the ranking, which evaluates sanitation, greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural policies, air pollution and 20 other measures to formulate an overall score, with 100 the best possible.
The top 10 countries, with scores of 87 or better, were led by Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The others at the top were Austria, France, Latvia, Costa Rica, Colombia and New Zealand, the leader in the 2006 version of the analysis, which is conducted by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities.
“We are putting more weight on climate change,” said Daniel Esty, the report’s lead author, who is the director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. “Switzerland is the most greenhouse gas efficient economy in the developed world,” he said, in part because of its use of hydroelectric power and its transportation system, which relies more on trains than individual cars or trucks.
The United States, with a score of 81.0, he noted, “is slipping down,” both because of low scores on three different analyses of greenhouse gas emissions and a pervasive problem with smog. The country’s performance on a new indicator that measures regional smog, he said, “is at the bottom of the world right now.”
He added, “The U.S. continues to have a bottom-tier performance in greenhouse gas emissions.”
I hope you feel better posting that.
It may have made sense if the others didn’t address me by name in their post.
Try reading the preceding posts in their entirety before posting criticisms, asshat.
And thanks for proving my point.
lol
Perhaps I’m too easily amused… could be because I work in INSURANCE… but I thought it was funny and for the record, I’m still snickering under my breath. So there.
~shrug~
Maybe “somebody” is jealoussss? cough cough Not Funny cough cough
Jealous of what? i blog anonymously on an insurance website. and so do you. it’s like we’re all tied for last place….and now among us we’re just deciding who really is the biggest loser.
a.w.e.s.o.m.e.
I was just kidding with ya. =)
me too….guess i shouldn’t quit my day job either. haha…
Aw shuks guys, why dont you two go get a room?
you guys are funnier that a one legged man in a butt kickin contest.
I just love to read this stuff and speculate what you do for a day job.
must be garbage collection
jasper, that’s SANITARY ENGINEER. A little consideration please. I am proud of my field. Don’t belittle me.