"Screw the planet, I'm an American!" Life is good. A must read from Mark Morford at SFGate.com:

"It is our global peril and our national trademark. Americans are notoriously, famously, massively blind to causality. We make zero connection between how we consume and the effects of that consumption on our bodies, our politics, the planet. It is staggering and sad and it is also nothing new."

Read.