In the international alliance to fight climate change, the United States is considered the sullen loner. But in the seven years since we rejected Kyoto, changes have begun. Not at the federal level, however. Its the locals who are making it happen.
Should this article not be titled "The 50 Greenest Cities in the United States"? If the writer of this article intended it to be about the 50 Greenest Cities of the United States OF America, she should have titled it as such. As a citizen of Canada, one of the countries of the Americas, and a recent immigrant to the United States, I am continually reminded how the people and government of the United States has usurped the title of American for themselves. Unfortunately this is incorrect and every citizen of North, Central and South America deserve and are entitled to use the term American. I hope this comment reminds the many professional writers out there that the country is the United States OF America and not America itself.
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