Appetite for Destruction
did anyone catch the nytimes sunday mag article about china's booming car culture? the velocity at which china is becoming a mini-me of the US is startling. and, in this case, i don't think the US is liable to look at china with doe eyes and state: "you complete me!"
per the article, china has 233% more passenger cars on the road in 2006 than it did in 2000. that's gotta be kicking out a nice plume of co2. although the lines al showed us in an inconvenient truth were literally climbing off the charts, i wouldn't be surprised to see them go much much higher in light of what's happening in china right now. china now has the second highest number of highway miles in the world. second to you know who and growing fast.
this is the ironic thing about the rise of the global economy. we got our 10 years of cheap products and labor out of the deal ... but you have to wonder at what price. globalism has led to a "they've gone plaid" chinese metamorphisis . it really can't get any faster, can it? oh it probably can and will ...
if co2 really is behind global warming, it's difficult to see how we're going to right the ship. it will be difficult to turn this massive boat around with any kind of speed. like the titanic, we're steering through difficult waters too quickly. we need to slow this thing down somehow
