Comment by brudgers
7 years ago
Switzerland is about 41000 km^2 in area. The US has about 660,000 km^2 of fresh surface water.
The scales of the US and Switzerland are incomensorable.
7 years ago
Switzerland is about 41000 km^2 in area. The US has about 660,000 km^2 of fresh surface water.
The scales of the US and Switzerland are incomensorable.
Ohio has the same population density as Spain. American exceptionalism is just American ignorance of geography.
Alabama is the size of England. Using individual US states as points of reference for entire European countries is one form of the incomensorability. Columbus, Ohio is as far from San Diego, California as Barcelona is from Moscow. Except there's pretty much nothing but empty plain, mountains, and desert in between. Ohio has 10,000 km^2 of fresh water...about a quarter of Switizerland.
Recognizing the difference of scale is not a claim to exceptionalism. The US's scale makes it more like Russia than any western European country.
Unless you are suggesting that the typical American pickup truck trip is across Lake Michigan and back your comparisons of scale are irrelevant.
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