EPA: Looking at Growth and Emissions
Each year EPA looks at emissions that impact the ambient concentrations of these pollutants. These annual emissions estimates are used as one indicator of the effectiveness of our programs. The graph below shows that between 1970 and 2003, gross domestic product increased 176 percent, vehicle miles traveled increased 155 percent, energy consumption increased 45 percent, and U.S. population grew by 39 percent. During the same time period, total emissions of the six principal air pollutants dropped by 51 percent.
Feel free to email this graph to David Suzuki and every Kyoto supporter you know…
We’re Destroying the World
And the sky is falling – I mean cleaner.
It would be inter…
While I agree entirely that Kyoto is bogus and David Suzuki is a goof, I don’t think that GDP numbers can be used for any reliable statistical purpose. Here’s why:
QUOTE: With reported growth moving up and away from economic reality, the primary significance of GDP reporting now is as a political propaganda tool and as a cheerleading prop for Pollyannaish analysts on Wall Street. UNQUOTE
http://www.prudentbear.com/archive_comm_article.asp?category=Guest+Commentary&content_idx=36574
I believe that Canadian GDP numbers are just as bogus as the US ones. If the real economy is growing more slowly than the propaganda GDP figures, then among other problems we have wildly out-of-control growth of government revenue and spending. In other words, Martin’s surplus has been squeezed out of Canadians at great expense to the economy. Not that he cares.