In order to continue receiving money, those countries comply. Losing that habitat and the species that live in it means losing the road map for restoring our environment. Simple carbon dioxide contributes more toward global warming than exotic gasses like CFCs. The average American automobile pumps its own weight in carbon dioxide into the air each year. And more than 180 million of the 500 million vehicles on Earth are in the U.S., where highway transportation alone accounts for about 27 percent of fossil-fuel released carbon dioxide.
Water pollution comes from industrial effluent.
After the cleanup efforts of the last two decades, less than 10 percent of water pollutants come directly from industry. Non-point sources, like oil that drips from automobiles and chemicals than get washed off lawns and fields, account for more than 65 percent of water pollution. The U.S. can grow enough food to feed the world. In 1988, U.S. grain production fell below even domestic consumption when farmers who had achieved impressive short-run results by intensive plowing, pumping and fertilizing were devastated by the drought. And consumers continued to buy highly processed grain-intensive foods.