http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Americans-Consume-24percent.htm
Answer
Partly. The information appears to be factually true but it does not tell the whole story.
Mindfully.org tends to select only news stories and articles that support it's perspective and excludes articles that challenge it's perspective. For example they have dozens of articles on oil price spiking (supporting their argument for wastefulness) but no articles on oil price falling (which would challenge their argument).
Also, mindfully.org does not correctly account for population. Imagine one American family with two parents and two kids has a car. Their energy use is one car / four people = 0.25 Now imagine one Indian family has two parents and six kids. Their energy use is one car / eight people = 0.125. According to mindfully.org, India is better than the USA.
However the same amount of energy is being consumed, and in fact India is in worse shape because having many kids will lead to overpopulation, and greater energy consumption in the future. USA has a high usage "per person" because we have much fewer people than India, China, etc.
Partly. The information appears to be factually true but it does not tell the whole story.
Mindfully.org tends to select only news stories and articles that support it's perspective and excludes articles that challenge it's perspective. For example they have dozens of articles on oil price spiking (supporting their argument for wastefulness) but no articles on oil price falling (which would challenge their argument).
Also, mindfully.org does not correctly account for population. Imagine one American family with two parents and two kids has a car. Their energy use is one car / four people = 0.25 Now imagine one Indian family has two parents and six kids. Their energy use is one car / eight people = 0.125. According to mindfully.org, India is better than the USA.
However the same amount of energy is being consumed, and in fact India is in worse shape because having many kids will lead to overpopulation, and greater energy consumption in the future. USA has a high usage "per person" because we have much fewer people than India, China, etc.
Major news events in 1984?
scarlettoh
My son is doing a school project to find out what was going on in the world when I and my mother were both 10 years old. This would place me in the fall of 1984. I have tried racking my brain and the only major news event that I was able to come up with was the Olympics in Los Angeles. I need three more major news events. Can amyone give me some clues or a website I can go to? Thanks!
Answer
Here's my picks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984
September 20 - Hezbollah car bombs the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
December 3 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
Here's my picks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984
September 20 - Hezbollah car bombs the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
December 3 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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