A green China?

I have read reports that as many as 2000 new cars are hitting the streets in china every day. These are not replacements but additional vehicles. That caculated to about 7.3 million vehicles in the next decade if the rate did not increase but by all logic it should. So as the western world becomes more independant of fossil fuels, how can we tell our Chinese friends that they can't have what we already have had for more than a half a century?

A green China?
I live in the central part of China as an ex pat from the USA





Most of the buses use CNG


It seems half the taxi's do too.





2,000 new cars a day is really nothing in a country this size.





However, China is also experiencing major traffic congestion in major cites and I suspect that China will take steps to curtail out of control sales.





China has one thing I have noticed that cities in the USA have sporadically. A good public transit system that is cheap and readily available. I can travel from one end of this city of 100,000 to the other in a bus for less then 8 cents. Or in a taxi for about $5. In Shanghai, they have a subway that is awesome. Buses and taxi's everywhere and its cheap. Even by Chinese standards.





Where I lived in the states it cost me $14 a day to take the subway to work, if I had to add a bus, it would have added $4. Here, it costs me 8 cents.





I think, China understands the value of keeping people on mass transit by keeping it cheap.





Peace





Jim
Reply:That is a problem. We've used fossil fuels to support our economis, now China, and others, are told not to do the same.
Reply:I am not sure, but I do know that China has a serious problem.
Reply:China is slowly coming around.





They are now starting to realize that unreduced global warming will damage their economy more than programs to reduce it will. If the world is spending many hundreds of billions on dealing with the effects of global warming, they're not buying nonessential consumer products from China.





And to realize that having air pollution bad enough to kill people can't be a good idea.





They've made all of America's mistakes in industrial development without adequate pollution control, but they seem to also be capable of learning from them.
Reply:Wait 4 china to reach saturation point,then they will only think GREEN,not now%26gt;it is a cycle
Reply:We can't, they already are funding foreign wars by exchanging weapons for oil (In Sudan for Darfur's oil).





Part of the answer is funding battery research to improve electric cars.
Reply:We can't. But there is a growing awareness in China of the environmental effects of their rapid growth. The local impacts are much more severe than the global ones, and much more likely to spark reforms. Don't be surprised if the next generation of low-pollution cars comes from China.
Reply:Its hard for China to do these things because they have a ***** load of people. The US has the highest pollution per capita than any other country. China is now the worlds largest polluter just because of the sheer number of people that they have, also China is a developing country so if they develop green energy rather than fossil fuels, chances are thats going to hurt their economy.

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