Americans Deserve to Consume More Resources






















In nature, the entity that supplies most of the benefit to a community gets most of the resources. Let's take the example of the Queen Bee. A queen develops from the same egg or larva as any other bee; the only difference is that she gets vastly greater amounts of royal jelly than the average worker honey bee. Because of this the queen develops into a sexually mature female.
It is the Queen Bee that ensures the survival of the hive and despite the communist misconception that it is the workers that contribute the most to society, nature itself makes the value judgment by allocating the greatest resources to whom she considers the most important. Of course, worker bees never complain that her Highness is only one bee yet consumes a greater proportion of resources than the rest of the hive. They know she deserves it.
Since I was a child I have heard, read, and seen reports about how much of the world's resources we few greedy Americans consume. Here's one:
Solar Energy International, Energy Consumption
- Though accounting for only 5 percent of the world's population, Americans consume 26 percent of the world's energy.
- In 1997, U.S. residents consumed an average of 12,133 kilowatt-hours of electricity each, almost nine times greater than the average for the rest of the world.
- America uses about 15 times more energy per person than does the typical developing country.











