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Originally Posted by crockett
Not saying we don't need to cut back, I'm all for it.. The thing that's different about the US is our country is way bigger than just about everyone on the list. You could probably fit every one of those countries on that list inside the US boarders.
So just by the way our country is set up, it requires the average American to drive much more than most people in other countries around the world.
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 on that list there are 2 countries bigger than the US, and 2 very close. That list has 5 times more land than the US. See for yourself:
Russia 17,098,242
Canada 9,970,610
China 9,596,961
Brazil 8,514,877
India 3,287,263
France 551,500
Japan 377,873
Germany 357,022
South Korea 99,538
total: 49,853,886 kmē
United States 9,629,091 kmē
in in terms of population:
China 1,315,844,000
India 1,103,371,000
Brazil 186,405,000
Russia 143,202,000
Japan 128,085,000
Germany 82,689,000
France 60,496,000
South Korea 47,817,000
Canada 32,268,000
Total: 3,100,177,000
United States of America 298,213,000
So 3 billion people on 5x bigger land use about the same as 300 million people. |