Reply #32: I have honestly wondered this too [View All]

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

Not only the massive environmental destruction caused by so many complacent and ignorant LGFers (and admittedly some Dems too) belching crap out of their SUV's and the blank check given to US corporations to pollute worldwide.

That's bad enough-- but the USA also has thousands of nuclear weapons in "ready-to-launch" positions, combined with sufficient numbers of fanatics in high places who think they could bring about the Rapture by launching them, and a military-industrial complex that benefits from them further.

In almost every other developed country, there's a reverence for the environment and a desire to protect it. In Japan, Germany, France, the Netherlands people are obsessive about minimizing pollution, using renewable fuels, promoting forest protection, supporting girls' education to reduce the birth rate in overpopulated regions-- while in the US, the government at least has an almost anti-ecological stance, even against such sacred landmarks, like the National Parks, that a *Republican*-- Teddy Roosevelt-- was responsible for initiating. Makes me wonder sometimes if a declined, no-longer-superpower US would somehow be safer for the world, by removing our nuclear weapons threat and reducing our impact on the environment.

I wish we could have the best of both worlds, i.e. the technological drive and entrepreneurial spirit of the US, w/o all the crap-- the evangelical religious fanaticism, the warmongering, the laissez-faire and often deliberately hostile attitudes to the environment. That would be a major advance.