The Audacity of Environmental Optimism

April 12, 2008
Television Review | 'Human Footprint'
Americans as Addicts of Consumerism
By ED BARK

What pigs we are.

Or to put it even more directly, the “average American” consumes 1.7 tons of pork in a lifetime, according to one of the myriad facts and figures in “Human Footprint” on the National Geographic Channel.

This two-hour production, having its premiere on Sunday, with Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News as anchor, is never more than a commercial break away from another armload of weighty statistics.

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