To the Editor:

I for one believe that my fellow Americans need to be doing some Real Serious Soul-Searching.... When it comes to their personal relationship with Planet EARTH.

Current statistics on per capita consumption of Natural Resources tell of an EARTH-Unfriendly relationship between Nature and America's nearly 400 million H sapiens. 

Take energy consumption.... Propane is becoming an increasingly popular fuel.... But step back for a minute and consider where all that "natural gas" is coming from.

Today's propane fuels are being produced via the "fracking" of gas and oil wells.... This is an outrageously harmful technology in terms of damage to Water.... Air.... And Wildlife Resources.

How can it be that the majority of Americans would claim to be well informed on questions of the Environment? Yet their per capita consumption of energy resources dwarfs that of their 3rd World Global Neighbors.

Google Search result--- Scientific American article.... September 14, 2012.

Quoting from--- "Use It and Lose It: The Outsize Effect of U.S. Consumption on the Environment.

"It is well known that Americans consume far more natural resources and live much less sustainable than people from any other large country of the world.... “A child born in the United States will create thirteen times as much ecological damage over the course of his or her lifetime than a child born in Brazil,” reports the Sierra Club’s Dave Tilford."

How about some Real Serious Awareness-Raising here, America.... We all need to be asking ourselves--- "Is our "high" standard of living living up to our global environmental responsibilities to live our lives in a way that harmonizes with our fellow Living Things?"

Dave Hassig
Colton