On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, James Heartfield wrote:
> Uncritically repeating the findings of the UN World Development Report,
> she charges American people with gobbling up the world's resources -
> oblivious to the way that these registers of 'resource depletion' are
> entirely fixated upon the level of distribution, masking the fact that
> American workers produce as great a share of the world's goods as they
> do its pollution.
>
Is this true? If share is defined as "wages paid", maybe, but I have a hard time believing American workers produce 25-50% of the world's goods (that's the percentage range of resource use for various important resources and different types of pollution).
Miles