Hey! Over here…Yeah… F-r-a-n-c-e.

Below is a photo of the American women’s bridge team after they won the Venice Cup, a world-class bridge event, recently held in Shanghai. Please note the little hand-printed sign held by one of the team members.

This sign is causing all sorts of trouble back in the US of A, where criticism of The Leader is not tolerated. The whole sad, sad story is here.

From the Carbon Monitoring for Action (Carma) website, the list of worst polluting countries by their power stations (in tons of CO²):

• US - 2,530 million
• China - 2,430 million
• Russia - 600 million
• India - 529 million
• Japan - 363 million
• Germany - 323 million
• Australia - 205 million
• South Africa - 201 million
• UK - 192 million
• South Korea - 168 million

(Source: Carma/CGD)

A South African power company has been using this billboard to educate citizens about the brave new world we are now living in. Fortunately, here in France we don’t have to worry about this sort of thing. At least that’s what friends tell me.