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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (36626)7/27/2003 7:33:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Yiwu, re < the head of the United Nations’s environment programme has warned that China’s growth — and ambitious plans for the future — are unsustainable.

Klaus Toepfer warned that so-called developed countries will be forced to tighten their belts under China’s plan to expand its economy fourfold within the next 20 years.>

Klaus is klueless. China's growth is sustainable. He's just another in the long list of doomsters who think that the poor need to stay poor, that there are too many of them and there's not enough room for all to have excellent lives.

Of course there won't be a billion Chinese driving around in individual American-style SUVs. But with smart vehicle technology, they can have even better transport and cheaper and cleaner and safer and more convenient and comfortable. Every Chinese can have swishy mobile cyberspace wherever they are. There's no need for millions of tons of copper to be festooned across the country. Every Chinese can enjoy delicious fish. With aquaculture, there's no limit to how much fish can be produced.

Environmentalists usually take the Luddite, doomster point of view. Which isn't to say there's no need to prevent pollution and destruction of commons.

Klueless Klaus should get a real job and stop depleting the world's resources to fund his hot air pollution.

Roll on China! More and faster!

Coal, bauxite, iron ore, silicon, limestone, oceans and a lot more are essentially unlimited.

Mqurice
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