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Can China be a green superpower?Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 1:49 PM
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Comments on Can China be a green superpower?
Ironically, they may have to, since they are so crunched for energy.. Can they afford to be wasteful?
Looking forward to see this movie. Hopefully China accomplishes this urgent and important task.
Go China, reforming yourself technologcially.Maybe the West are unhappy about losing their hegemony :( But you must accomplish your goals!!!Dont be like the next US.
Green technology is a key theme driving today's technological development, and China is a primary driving force in the world economy... why wouldn't China become a Green Superpower?
Check out Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat, and Crowded". There's a great section on China becoming green, but most likely not until the US takes on the role. China is very content with their un-green economic situation. They won't switch over until they really have to (when they need to catch up to the US).
Extremely interesting. We often hear that Western economies will need to transition their economies to new, "green tech" industries in order to stay ahead of the emerging economies. But it looks like they may already be falling behind. Looking forward to seeing the film, I wonder if they discuss China's nuclear sector.
I don't know...I live here and I think even more than at home in the US, people just don't care...I have lived in over 20 countries and I have never seen any group of people so willing to mortgage their future on the profits of today...and given that those profits are, largely, not being used for green development, given that corruption is so rampant that the green building codes they mentioned are worth more as toilet paper than actual restrictions, and given that with no workable legal system there is no incentive to do more than the bare minimum....no, if China's systems of control and income disparity do survive the century as the 恶心的 monster that they are, it will be truly (and frighteningly) impressive.