The United States is widely regarded as a global economic superpower. Citation: I’m sure that sentence has appeared verbatim in Time Magazine before. But on a recent roadtrip throughout the middle and Eastern US, I found myself wondering, ‘If we’re such an economic superpower – If we’ve been plundering this land for centuries – what do we really have to show for it?’
Not to put too fine a point on it, but…
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Bus stops where passengers seek refuge from the harsh sun under shrubs like marsupials in the Australian Savannah.