The Waste Generation

In the article "Wasteland Generation", Bill Bryson states that Americans as a whole are wasteful. Bryson states that,"With just 5 percent of the world's population,we consume 20 percent of its resources." Bryson throws out other points as well such as we leave our computers on all night. Bryson brings up the conventions that were held in the early 1990's to fix the global warming problem. Bryson brings up numerous negative aspects of Americans such as leaving the light on in our rooms, and the leaving our car engines running outside when we arrive at at friends house. Although some of these points were valid when Bryson made these claims they aren't all entirely true. We as Americans have limited the amount of waste we create in the last tens years.