[lbo-talk] 'Empire' after Iraq

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 29 03:50:53 PDT 2003


From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>

writes, replying to my contention 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)."

OECD total GDP, 2000 = 25,528 billion dollars (granting that that's not the whole world)

US GDP, 2000 = 9,896 billion dollars, or 38 per cent

-- James Heartfield



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