[Gllug] [OT] Technobabble

[David Damerell]

On Sunday, 20 Nov 2005, Jim Bailey wrote:
>On Nov 18, 05:17, David Damerell wrote:
>>On Friday, 18 Nov 2005, Jim Bailey wrote:
>>>China and India have done the maths and know their growth is not
>>>environmentally stable.  Anyone like myself, who has been in Calcutta
>>>knows how much more immediate the enviromental cost of polluting
>>>wasteful technologies are.  Which is why India leads PV research and
>>>development and China has recently ordered all new buildings to reach
>>>new environmental standards and older ones be refitted where possible.
>>Is that why China is so keen on the ever increasing use of motor cars
>>there, a well-known clean technology?
>What has that got to do with China ordering that new building have to be
>more energy efficient.

The point is that the idea that the Chinese are concerned about the
environmental stability of their growth - at any rate, that they are
concerned enough about it not to have ever-increasing emissions - is
obviously false.

>However China has also been making efforts to clean up its domestic
>automative industry.

Hint; orders of magnitude more somewhat cleaner cars doesn't get you
reduced emissions. That's rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

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