But it's only 250 million who are producing 25% of all the earth's pollution. Those 250 million people belong to the same country. One country. One country is over-consuming and overpolluting.

That country is the USA, where everyone has one car each!

We've all got to pay for the USA's pollution. Some Pacific islanders will no longer have an island to live on in a few years, due to rising sea-levels caused by global-warming, which is mainly caused by the hyper-consumerist, selfish society that is the USA.

Australia is just as guilty as you are. We have a small population, and yet we produce almost as much pollution [in greenhouse gas emissions] as you do on a per capita basis.

Countries like ours should hang their heads in shame. We're a bunch of over-consuming, over- polluting bastards!

If the USA continues polluting as much as it does now, I doubt the world will even have time to produce 9 billion people, coz we'll all be dead through the negative climatic changes - changes brought about by people driving their cars down the block to get their MacDonalds happy meal rather than walking there instead!

Good article FA.

Now, if you could only get your government to agree to the Kyoto treaty as the more thoughtful European countries have done. Without the USA agreeing to the Kyoto polluting-limits, the treaty is dead in the water.

The USA has become WORLD ENEMY NUMBER ONE. To think the capitalist world was once afraid of Russia. The USA has become the most dangerous rogue state ever.

I'm not of course holding any of you here personally responsible. Please, though, try to convince your government to play the game fairly. We're all in this together. Planet earth is depending on you!

AP