Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World
by BinaryWaves on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:17PM
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China uses the most renewable resources of any nation and just committed to 2+ billion expansion of their development. Never wise to be dismissive and generalize an entire country when it is a complex landscape of ideals and practices
Could be because they need to, not because they want to. The air pollution in some of their cities is downright hazardous so they have to do something and it also makes economic sense by now with the falling prices of solar. I don't buy that they are suddenly really interested in sustainability.
Every one that's trying to save the environnement is doing it because we need to.
Some people actually believe in the concepts of sustainability for reasons beyond their own interests.
Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World
by JabavuAdams on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:32PM
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> China uses the most renewable resources of any nation
Percentage-wise?
This is how every rich country went through industrialization. Not because they were all immoral, but because they were poor.
The good news is that China is somehow doing this in fast forward. Each Chinese year seems to be 3 years in a regular economy, and their enormous push for solar power is (I hope) just one sign of what's to come.