the united states is a very young country, not thousands of years old like in europe and the middle east, and yet we have already messed it up so bad. we have pollution and crime and now a financial crisis brought on by GREED. also why is everybody getting fat? when i was growing up no one was fat except for a few people. now even people in tv ads are fat, and not for anti-fat products either, for EVERYTHING! maybe if we could not afford gas we would all walk everywhere and the pollution would go away and climate change would stop, so the polar bears could survive. how is it possible to destroy a huge country in just a few hundred years? it makes me sad. technology is my favorite thing but it has ruined the world. do you think we will be wiped out soon and have to start over? what is 2012?