About Natural Resources. Is it true?

Question

I read in a book that if all the planet's inhabitants where to have the life style of the americans the planet's natural resources would be drained in just three days. (I'm not american and I have nothing against you, just wanna know how you live).

Answer 1

I don't think someone could say "3 years".
the big problem is not with resources being used up. it's with americans' attitude against environment-friendly methods. if one's economy is based on oil, oil, oil, oil, ...and oil....
they have already failed to conform to the Kyoto protocol. not because they couldn't. because they did not want to.
after all giving money to scientific research is a luxury (there are some ....operations using up the money); especially since religion will eventually substitute science (see ID, Creationists...).

Bottom line: maybe more than 3 years. but they are drawing the rest of the world backwards, to protect their dogmas.

but we're not all americans, and not all americans are like that.
we can extend our existence on this planet.

Answer 2

Its false.

I am an American, and I can tell you we have more acreage of forested land here than we did in colonial days, for one example.

In reality, our environmental laws are so strict that we can't even go after and use many of our own largest deposits of oil, natural gas and other resources.

We're just a convenient scapegoat and an easy target to blame for every problem real, or imagined in the World at large.

Answer 3

"""resources would be drained in just three days"""

Where, praytell, are those resources supposed to go?

Apparently whoever wrote that book has a major case of envy.

Answer 4

Give me a break, just think about it. If true, would it not take only a few weeks with current US population?