I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.
Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.
The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.