“China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said … His statement came as a Dutch think tank reported that China had already overtaken the US as the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 … [But] It is estimated that the average American still pollutes between five and six times more than the average Chinese person.”

I always think it’s unfair to expect developing countries to develop greenly when the only reason countries such as Britain are developed is because we industrialised at the expense of the environment. From BBC News, here.

Posted Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 @ 5:36 am
Filed in business and productivity, china, environment, politics, science and tech

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