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Maybe we Americans have gotten hardened to being 1.blamed for everything wrong in the world. and 2. Never being given credit for doing anything right.
We ship our jobs overseas, so they rest of the world can be employed, and we get no credit for helping (at our own direct cost) them.
We blamed for causing cultures to hate us, when (in many cases) they've hated every external culture to theirs for a 1000 years or more.
We act as the consumer of last resort, to keep all those overseas factories humming (and the jobs attached to them, as well), and get chastised by the very same people for being spendthrifts.
We're told to do without, for the good of the planet, but funny, nobody else has to...
The real answer out is better technology, but for the last 40 years it's been NIMBY to good fixes (like nuke plants) while waiting for better fixes, like cheaper solar and better battery technology. (In 1974, solar cost 1000 times generated power, now it 4 times. Any bets it won't drop another 10 fold in another 10 years?)
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