1. 92% of Japan’s three million ton import of soybeans comes from the U.S.
2. The U.S. has 6% of the worlds’s poplulation; consumes 1/3 of the energy annually comsumed in the world.
3. The U.S. consumes 1/3 of the world’s annual meat.
4. The top1/5 of American population gets 45% of salary income, and owns about 77% of the total wealth. The top 1% owns 20 to 30% of personal wealth.
5. A modern nation needs 13 basic industrial raw materials. By AD 2000 the U.S. will be import-dependant on all but phosphorus.
6. General Motors is bigger than Holland
7. Nuclear energy is mainly subsidized with fossil fuels and barely yeilds net energy.
8. The “Seven Sisters”-Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, Standard of California, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell.
9.” The reason solar energy has not and will not be a major contributor or susbtitute for fossil fuels is that it will not compete without energy subsidy from fossil fuel economy. The plants have already maximized the use of sunlight.”-H.T. Odum
10. Our primary source of food is the sun.
“Facts” by Gary Snyder circa 1974
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