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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M2 who wrote (47162)	2/15/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 132070

Mike: you are welcome. Yes, the madness of consumption and debt in US is beyond my belief. When I was in school in 1989, a couple from Austria in the same dept. said they had one small one bed-room apartment and a 9-inch black-white TV back in Austria. I was so surprised, because even if in China's big cities most of families already watch colored TV at that time. Some Europeans just not as materialized as the people in the US. And sad to say, in this respect, some Chinese are starting to follow the footprint of the US, not European countries. I don't mean debt, I mean the consumption, the conspicuous consumption. It is one thing for a country with 270 million population to consume like crazy, but it is another for a country of 1.2 billion pop. to consume like crazy. I don't even think the world can afford this. Of course, everybody has the right to consume what they can afford, but does this planet can provide this amount of resources?