Emissions of CO2 will double by 2030.

[techs]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051107/sc_nm/energy_iea_co2_dc

China and other developing countries will emerge as the world's biggest polluters over the next 25 years, driving a sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.
Emissions of CO2, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming and climate change, will climb 52 percent by 2030 if the world's energy use keeps growing as expected, the Paris-based IEA said in its World Energy Outlook 2005.
"The increase in emissions from China alone will exceed the increase in all the OECD countries and Russia combined," said the IEA, advisor on energy to 26 industrialized countries.
China will account for nearly three quarters of the projected increase in CO2, as developing countries' output of greenhouse gases overtakes that of OECD nations.

(another 'benefit" of outsourcing)

 

[EatSpam]

This is part of the reason why so many of our factories are overseas. Big Business wanted license to pollute as much as possible and China allows that.

 

[dahunan]

Deal with it.. If the world wants capitalism then this is the by-product

 

[alent1234]

they are allowed to pollute since they are a developing nation. The all-wise europeans said so in the kyoto treaty.

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: alent1234
they are allowed to pollute since they are a developing nation. The all-wise europeans said so in the kyoto treaty.

Yes, and as long as they provide the slave laborers then they can do whatever they want... and BTW, soon they will be able to do whatever the hell they want to because they will be the most powerful nation in the world

 

[mOeeOm]

China clearly needs to be invaded.

 

[sandorski]

China has actually been quite forward looking on this issue. I suspect the numbers suggested won't materialize. Partly due to China taking some initiative now, partly due to technology advances that will happen between now and then. Sounds like more "Good thing we didn't sign on to Kyoto" FUD to me(at least a few posts lean that way). That said, a positive side-effect of such a report is that it puts the potential affect of China's developement at the forefront, allowing everyone the chance to improve on the potential environmental disaster that is inevitable.

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[charrison]

Originally posted by: sandorski
China has actually been quite forward looking on this issue. I suspect the numbers suggested won't materialize. Partly due to China taking some initiative now, partly due to technology advances that will happen between now and then. Sounds like more "Good thing we didn't sign on to Kyoto" FUD to me(at least a few posts lean that way). That said, a positive side-effect of such a report is that it puts the potential affect of China's developement at the forefront, allowing everyone the chance to improve on the potential environmental disaster that is inevitable.

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Well china is starting to clean up its act, however several hundrend million chinese will move from the farms to the cinty in the next couple of decades as well. THey get cleaner, but they still will producing alot more by then as well.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: sandorski
China has actually been quite forward looking on this issue. I suspect the numbers suggested won't materialize. Partly due to China taking some initiative now, partly due to technology advances that will happen between now and then. Sounds like more "Good thing we didn't sign on to Kyoto" FUD to me(at least a few posts lean that way). That said, a positive side-effect of such a report is that it puts the potential affect of China's developement at the forefront, allowing everyone the chance to improve on the potential environmental disaster that is inevitable.

edit: spelling

Well china is starting to clean up its act, however several hundrend million chinese will move from the farms to the cinty in the next couple of decades as well. THey get cleaner, but they still will producing alot more by then as well.

True, but current Projections assume todays technology/Trends. China could decide to build a bunch of Nuke Plants in the meantime and develope an extensive network of electrically powered Mass Transit, thus reducing CO2 emmissions significantly. We just can't know right now how much they'll be producing then.

All we know is that the current Technology/Trend is no good and needs to be changed in some fashion.