Website review: WorldChanging: Another World Is Her...
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laodan rated 24 months ago
Pollution and the Chinese Future Alex's comment is right on the mark. We will more and more see Western condemning comments about all that touches China but in the end China itself will answer what lays in store for humanity in the future. And we better remember that China has 3000 years of experience in managing a huge bureaucracy that permitted its state apparatus to survive without any need for outside "discoveries" and plunder. All the other political experiments ended up in ashes. This should serve as a reminder to Western salon critics that China has indeed the experience and should I add the moral canvas to steer humanity in the future. My understanding of China's history and civilizational axioms is what distinguishes my personal vision of the future from the deep pessimism of most Western analysts of our ecological future. 3 good articles in WorldChanging by Alex Steffen. """ The coal China is burning now is of immediate concern to most of East Asia and the North American West Coast, but the coal Chinas burns over the next two decades will weigh heavily in deciding not only what kind of future we will have: it may well play a critical part in deciding what kind of lives our great-grandchildren live. ... We need to intentionally trigger a planetwide eruption of bright green leapfrogging, and, in many ways, China needs to be the epicenter, not only because a dark brown China means a ruined world, but because of the influence China has come to exert across the Global South and especially in Africa. In much of the Global South, the U.S. and E.U. lack the credibility to bring on such a push, but a China which saw such a future as not only right, but in its interest (a bright green leapfrogged China is going to have a lot of solar panels and expertise to sell), might well be able to lead the charge. """ URL: Pollution and the Chinese Future URL: Pollutio n costs equal 10% of China's GDP URL: the Miracle will end soon, if China doesn't act quickly URL: The Times reports that coal-burning in China is killing 400,000 Chinese a year, and contributing mightily to environmental problems around the world. URL: environmental problems around the world URL: the influence China has come to exert across the Global South URL: China: Solar Water Heater Superpower URL: the world's largest boom market for solar water heaters
