Why indeed? Who is proposing that we should?

Supposing Kendall had started a thread called:

How to destroy the ozone layer

or

How to destroy the oceans


Would you have made the same kind of defensive assumption that this meant he wanted to see the ozone layer or the oceans destroyed? ;-)

Or would a more sensible reaction be that he was pointing out a possible danger to America, the ozone layer, or the oceans? Kendall lives in America, so I think he's probably a bit worried about possible dangers to his society such as a financial collapse.

The present financial crisis is happening precisely because a great many people used credit foolishly and bought things they couldn't afford, and because collosal amounts of American money have been wasted on efforts that produce no useful return: two foreign wars.

China, in the meantime has been doing business. So has India. They've been doing things that do produce a useful return.