This month the US surpasses the 300 million mark and with this milestone social commentators at home and abroad are assessing the implications. According to the British Newspaper “the Independent,” America’s growth is “unsustainable.” As the paper notes:

On a global scale the average US citizen uses far more than his or her fair share of the planet's resources - consuming more than four times the worldwide average of energy, almost three times as much water and producing more than twice the average amount of rubbish and five times the amount of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming. The US - with five per cent of the world's population - uses 23 per cent of its energy, 15 per cent of its meat and 28 per cent of its paper. Additional population will mean more people seeking a share of those often-limited resources.

Such commentary begs the inevitable question, what gives these leftist social commentators or any other self proclaimed authority on sustainable growth the right to determine what is a person’s fair share of energy or food use. These socialist complain that the US uses a large proportion of the world’s meat, paper and other resources, while neglecting the fact that many of these resources are produced domestically for domestic consumption. The implication therefore being that the US, as a wealthy nation is somehow obliged to share its wealth with those who have squandered resources and their competitive advantages in the arena of global trade.

This left wing diatribe, in assessing the amount of trash produced and energy consumed in the United States, also fails to note that the US accounts for over ¼ of the world’s global economic output. What this report does expose is the extent of socialist thinking within the western world, as well as their goals for a new world order, one in which some global entity dictates the use of resources, even within a country’s borders.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1834360.ece