US is the no. 1 polluter in the world

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

OTH, I just found an article that Australia is the #1 offender. Resent.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/11/...-in-the-world/

Define the pollution. Air? Trash? Chemical?

Well all of them I guess. It becomes difficult when defining how they relate to each other and what about radioactive stuff, is that more dangerous then say several hundred tons of plastic waste etc.

I think what also has to be looked at here is how wealthy the country is, how can they afford to put into antipollution technologies and policies and what is the track record of that country. If say China has passed the US a couple years ago, that still means that the US has been no. 1 for decades before that, right?