It is amazing the level of guilt that is trying to be placed into the minds of Americans these days by Global Warming Alarmists, eco-terrorists, and leftist-socialist-environmentalists. Americans should stop listening. After all, in the USA we have some of the safest water to drink in the World right out of the tap. We have fresh safe water going into nearly every major city, and each business and home in it. The Romans would have been blown away by our intensive network of waterways and pipe systems.

Additionally, we have some of the most stringent controls on our sewer treatment plants. And we have very serious stringent air-quality controls on our power plants. Americans should be proud of what we've done and in our efforts to continually reduce our pollution, never should we feel guilty. If anyone wants to place guilt on this great nation, they have the wrong target in mind; tell it to China, and other nations with lax-controls and only promises of future eco-green-clean-up.

Not long ago, an acquaintance, and I mean that in the loosest of definitions, stated to me; "Americans should never again say to their children "I love you" because all they are doing is pulling the trigger today, and the bullet is going to enter our children's heart in the next couple of decades. If we are such frivolous creatures, well, then so be it, and we deserve whatever comes."

Incidentally, this misguided gentleman is from South America and he's been watching too much anti-US television. I ask; is he speaking for himself? I hear a lot of folks talking like that, but I ask them what have they personally done to help clean up the environment? The reality is that they've done nothing or very little.

Indeed, if we lie to ourselves and go about this mantra of environmental extremism to clean up the world, but in the process do it only in name, costing billions of people quality of life by over-taxing our civilizations, then we have done nothing more than lied to ourselves, thus, we are hypocrites, and I am not interested in being a hypocrite. Global Warming (CO2 theory) is simply nonsense, and if we pretend and use that as a "fear-pull" strategy to move society unnecessarily, that's certainly nothing I am interested in.

Americans should feel proud of their civilization, proud of their environmental work, and yes, continue to improve it. But we as Americans should never feel guilty, and we must not listen to anti-American claims that we are big-polluters, as the reality is we've done better than most nations, and certainly better than any nation even close to our size in population. Please consider all this.