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Faster horses

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This neglects to say that China also has a very large stake in the Canadian Oil Sands as well.
Instead of expending all their energies protesting the “tar” sands and pipelines, the protesters and environmentalists should be conducting their campaigns in China where change would really make a difference.
Good luck with that!


China has 19% of the world’s population, but consumes ...

53% of the world's cement

48% of the world's iron ore

47% of the world's coal

.... and the majority of just about every other major commodity.


In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United States.


New World Record: China made and sold 18 million vehicles in 2010.

There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined.

China currently has the world’s fastest train and the world’s largest high-speed rail network.

China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power, but don’t use it themselves. While they manufacture 80% of the world’s solar panels, they install less than 5% and build a new coal fired power station every week. In one year they turn on more new coal powered electricity than Australia's total output.




China currently controls more than 90% of the total global supply of rare earth elements.

In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14th place to 2nd place in the world in published scientific research articles.

China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire globe.


At the end of March 2011, China accumulated US$3.04 trillion in foreign currency reserves

--the largest stockpile on the entire globe.


Chinese people consume 50,000 cigarettes every second …

They are already the largest carbon dioxide emitter and their output will rise 70% by 2020.


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And we think we're saving the planet?! It will not make one iota of difference what we do in Australia, Canada, the United States or anywhere else in the world for that matter. All the politicians are doing is increasing our cost of living and making our manufacturers uncompetitive in the world market, with their idiotic carbon tax, when countries like China are growing and consuming at these extraordinary rates! Time to wake up!
 

Traveler

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Correct. All the enviro-libs are doing is making it harder for us to compete and easier for us to be overtaken, which seems to be their goal.
 

Steve

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..what is that saying about stupid?..

, rich countries are about to fund 20 new coal-fired power plants in China and India—and if the applications are approved, the UN's Clean Development Mechanism will become one of the largest funders of new coal power plants.

The Guardian has the story and explains it all, but the justification is that the new plants would be more "efficient" than older ones, and would be paid for by carbon offsets that British and European companies bought instead of cutting their own emissions.

so the Europeans who feel bad about their dirty coal plants, pay the Chinese to build cleaner ones and to shutter their old ones..

in a few years the new Chinese coal plants will be old and can be replaced again... :???:

Rich countries to pay energy giants to build new coal-fired power plants

UN's Clean Development Mechanism to use European carbon offset credits to subsidise 20 'efficient' coal plants in India and China

The UN is set to channel billions of pounds of public money from rich countries to giant energy companies to build 20 heavily polluting coal-fired power plants on the basis that they will emit less carbon dioxide than older ones.

Data seen by the Guardian shows that 12 companies have applied to the UN for hundreds of millions of emission reduction credits to subsidise "efficient" coal-fired power stations in China and India. Many of the plants would be paid for with carbon offsets bought by British and European companies in lieu of cutting their own emissions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/14/un-carbon-offset-coal-plants

Others companies are now examining if they qualify. Eskom, the giant South African coal mining company controversially loaned £3.75bn by the World Bank in April to build what one of the largest coal-fired power stations in the world, has said it will apply for emission reduction credits. If built, the Medupi plant will emit nearly 25m tonnes of CO2 a year, more than the national output of 115 individual countries.
now that will "help clean up the environment" :roll:
 
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