[Vision2020] US Per Capita Leaking of CO2 into Atmosphere: 19.18 Tons, 2008

[Ted Moffett]

US per capita leaking of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2008, 19.18 tons:
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html

That means you, I, everyone in the US, on average due to our economy
and lifestyle, dumping 19 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, with annual
amounts close to this figure, year after year.

If a corporation dumped 19 tons of oil into the Snake River, they'd
make headlines and be attacked, etc.

Yet despite the science indicating CO2 is inducing potentially
catastrophic climate change, which includes CO2 polluting the Earth's
oceans via the process of ocean acidification, most people accept this
massive dumping into the atmosphere as though it were an open sewer,
with a curious lack of urgency.

The US Supreme Court has ruled the EPA can regulate CO2 as a pollutant
( Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Authority to Regulate Carbon Dioxide:
WASHINGTON, DC, June 20, 2011 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2011/2011-06-20-03.html ), yet
opposition to both the EPA's authority to enforce such regulations,
and US Congressional legislation to regulate CO2, is formidable:

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Media Matters: Opponents of EPA Climate Action Dominate TV News
Airwaves -- only scientist interviewed was Patrick Michaels, noted
liar before Congress:
http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2011/06/media-matters-opponents-of-epa-climate.html
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