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>>What a stubbornly negative view.  Why does anyone  have to "come
>>down"?
>
>Obviously because the planet's resources are not sufficient to allow 
>all humanity to live like Americans. I thought everybody knew that ...

What is fundamentally different about the way Americans live compared to 
Europeans or Japanese? I really want to know this. When I was in Japan in the 
very hot and humid summer, you could walk by store after store with the 
entire front of the store open to the street ... with the Air conditioner 
running full blast cooling all of nature, and then there are American trees 
cut down, sent to Japan, and turned into throw away chopsticks. Given the 
chance, any other country would consume just as much as the US.

On the other hand, the Arab/Islam world is largely poor except for certain 
people in certain oil countries. And yet they don't make much effort to start 
businesses or farms, or create seed money that will lead to economic 
prosperity.