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Old 02-19-2005, 02:21 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I think per-capita pollution might not be the right metric for measuring, but I'm not sure what it would be replaced with. The only thing I could think of would be pollution per acre/sq. mile but that would skew in favor of low population density countries (and would probably put Japan at the top for polluters).

Personally I'm not that worried about the environment, I think if something really critical is about to happen technology will find an answer. But admittedly I also have a very short-term view of the problem.
Yeah, we can't do that. We have skew the data to make the US look like that the pollution it creates is causing asthma for the Creator himself. After all, this is about punishing the USA.
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