Economic crisis vs. Environment

On the radio this morning a comedian was talking about the advantages of the increasing unemployment in the US:
"last month hundreds of thousands, 5 million the last year, about 10% of the population". and he finds that "formidable, absolument genial".
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"The more Americans are unemployed, the more chances we have to survive" all because "they are the worse pollution makers in the planet"
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"what no one was able to do, from the ecologists of the 'Club of Rome' to those of Rio and Kyoto, the cupid(?) bankers at Wall street managed to do it in less than two years with their sub-prime".


I decided to make my own investigation about the differences of the US, Switzerland and Portugal:
here is a nice statistics web page.

One of the most interesting results in my view is the 'Ecological footprint'*:

(click to view other countries)

So here it is my conclusion:
United States produces 6.5 times more waste than they should(12.22/1.89).
Switzerland produces 3.5 times more waste than they should(6.63/1.89).
Portugal produces 2.6 times more waste than they should(4.99/1.89).

now, the question is: If we humans are too stupid to do something, can you tell me in which year is Wall-E going to be released?

(*) The Ecological Footprint is a method of measuring and analyzing resource consumption and waste output compared to the renewable capacity of nature. It represents the amount of productive land area needed to produce the resources (food,energy and materials) and to absorb the wastes produced by an individual. Since 1980, the average per capita ecological footprint has decreased as many processes (especially crop production) have become more efficient.If the ecological footprint exceeds the available productive land, The resource use is considered unsustainable.
Globally, the available ecologically productive land area included in the Ecological footprint analysis is 1.89 hectares for each person. The footprint takes into account fossil fuel use, cropland, forests, nuclear and hydroelectric power, fisheries and buildings.