Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by oblio on Sunday December 10, 2017 @03:54AM
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We can take this both ways: up until the 60s or so the West also viewed more people as a forte. It's just that it started from a lower base, the US started from 100 million people when China was at 300+ million...
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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by richardknop on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:15AM
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Also after WW2 most young men in Europe were dead or maimed so in 50s and 60s governments supported population explosion so Europe would replenish tens of millions of young people it lost in the war and could rebuild its decimated economy.