The sled dog teams and the surfers have teamed up against the US on the issue of global warming. Realizing that the colder areas of the planet have a lot to lose by not having all of that ice in a frozen state and that the warmer islands have to worry about not becoming modern day Atlantis, they have teamed up to stop the US from ruining the environment. Their plans range from talking about it, to law suits, to citing the US with a human rights violation for global warming.
Okay, I'm not a fan of the polar ice caps melting and wiping out Hawaii... though I could live without San Francisco. I'm not a fan of having to break out parkas in sunny California. Still, how many times has doomsday been predicted? We hear about the hole in the ozone layer every so often and everyone panics. We do nothing and people stop talking about it. Why? Because the hole in the ozone naturally grows and shrinks and can heal itself ! The U.S. is also singled out as the worst offender of polluting the environment. I can't find the map anymore, but there is/was a huge fire in coal mines in China that made China show up as worse than the U.S. for, I believe, Carbon Dioxide polution. With China switching to coal from oil (about halfway down the page) China is only going to get worse. I'm not saying that we should recklessly destroy our world, I'm just sick of hearing people talking about how bad my country is. The U.S. has many public areas that have little to no human impact. California has tons of land that is federal, state, county, or city lands. If you're having trouble thinking of unspoiled wilderness areas, think of a certain big, huge ditch in the ground or a certain state inhabitted by only 600,000 people (300,000 of which live in one city) that takes up 1/5 of the mainland United States.
Okay, I'll step off my soap box now
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