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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (262595)4/24/2008 4:53:34 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Actually, the growth in China has come at a huge cost to the environment

That is true, but so did earlier rapid growth in the UK, the US, Germany etc.

As countries begin to become seriously developed they tend to care more about wealth than about environmental protection. When they go beyond seriously developing to actually be "wealthy" they tend to have more concern about the environment and more resources to do something about helping the environment.

Right now China still has hundreds of millions of desperately poor people, so its not surprising that the people are more focused on growth.

The reality is that when the Taliban went away, wheat farmers decided to plant opium.

Most of, perhaps all of, the growth figures I posted where growth in the economy outside of drug production.
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