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Rebuttal To freddyfourfingers Entry

Firstly Id like to point out the fact that you just hid behind your draft and hoped nobody would contest it. By the way Id have put this in a comment if it werent for that, but I suppose this way it is easier for people to get a more educated viewpoint on the matter. After comparing the United States and Russia, I found that the United States emits well over double (almost triple) the amount of carbon dioxide that Russia does. Although the U.S. has around double the population of Russia it consumes well over double the amount of energy of Russia. (The previous information was from the EIA Country Analysis Breifs) To freddy-four-fingers, you as an American really should not complain one bit about air pollution unless you are talking about you own country's. Speaking of ozone depleting substances, according to http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2005/china.shtml, the United States produces about 1/4 of the GLOBAL total of greenhouse gases. Just because Russia is a major producer of ODS's doesn't mean they are at fault for creating the demand for them. In addition, ECOMALL rated 146 countries by their place as protectors of the environment. Russia was ranked 33 (Ahead of the U.S. at 46). In response to the comments about nuclear waste, it is completely safe if stored properly. After studying in chemistry about this matter, we learned that the containers used to store the waste keep nearly all radioactivity contained. Additional curies of radioactivity are almost completely undetectable only feet away from the containers. Sure, Russia has had a bad past as far as nuclear energy accidents, but security has tightened down enormously to ensure nothing like the Chernobyl incident ever happens again. Now, any containment of nuclear waste is near flawless. Critics of the storage of nuclear waste are either uneducated or have been brainwashed by media's messages. Finally, Russia should not be viewed on negatively for environmental problems that the United States is also (and usually moreso) guilty of. That is not to say that we should stop trying to improve the environment, because I believe the contrary. However, Russia should not be singled out and we should look on environmental issues from a world perspective. After all, Russia has had a great impact on the world today, for example it has offered safe and peaceful solutions to Iran's ambitions about nuclear energy, and we cannot forget the aid the Soviet Union brought us in WW2. On an ending note- RUSSIA RULES!!!

posted by Anonymous @ 2/19/2006 03:11:00 PM