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jrtomfrom Robin at ambiguous.org:
The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon
Planet Faces Nightmare Forecasts as Chinese Consumption Grows and Grows
...and this is part of the reason why the US' refusal to join the Kyoto Protocol is insanely stupid: without a public committment on the part of the US government to believable conservation and pollution controls, no one else is going to take anything that the US has to say on this point seriously.
We're running out of the geopolitical equivalent of social capital at a frightening rate, folks.
The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon
Planet Faces Nightmare Forecasts as Chinese Consumption Grows and Grows
...and this is part of the reason why the US' refusal to join the Kyoto Protocol is insanely stupid: without a public committment on the part of the US government to believable conservation and pollution controls, no one else is going to take anything that the US has to say on this point seriously.
We're running out of the geopolitical equivalent of social capital at a frightening rate, folks.