We also know that
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy. Gale Norton
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy. Gale Norton
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures that we can come up with right now,. with the lifestyle and consumption pattern of the Western industrial civilization, we can probably sustain about 2 billion people on this earth. We … Read more
The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India – both of them doing well. Freeman Dyson
If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA’s efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning. Fred Upton
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. Derek Bok
It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It’s clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally … Read more
Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other … Read more
With support jobs moving to China and India, it’s not surprising that English-speaking countries’ top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers’ growing intolerance of non-native speech, more … Read more
It’s our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else’s. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century. Bill McKibben
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are. Bill McKibben