<div>Bottom line (my wording) quote from article:</div>
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<div>"Per-capita income in China is less than 1/10 of America's and its per-capita greenhouse gas emission is less than 1/5 of ours. But if 1.3 billion Chinese were to consume at the level Americans do, we'd need several more Earths."</div>
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<div>Text of article:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html">http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html</a></div>
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<div>Statistics from article:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/china-eats-the-world.html">http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/china-eats-the-world.html</a></div>
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<div>An excerpt:</div>
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<div>"China has steadily maintained that the developed countries bear primary responsibility for global warming and must be the first to counter it. The argument has some merit: After all, the United States alone is responsible for a quarter of the man-made greenhouse gases pumped into the earth's atmosphere over time, while China's cumulative contribution is still less than a third as much. And even today, China's per-capita carbon dioxide emissions are less than a fifth of America's. Yet China's refusal to curb emissions could single-handedly wipe out reductions made elsewhere, crippling the international effort. ...<br>
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<div>"The United States passed up the opportunity it had at the beginning of China's economic transformation to guide it toward sustainability, and the loss is already incalculable. All that is left is the one option that would have served Americans (and the world) best all along, which is to model environmental sanity. Stop buying products made from illegally cut wood. Stop building coal-fired power plants. Instead of subsidizing oil companies, invest government funds in research on sustainable-energy technologies. Build effective mass-transit systems in every city. Cut greenhouse gas emissions. Show China the benefits of responsible behavior."<br>
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<div>Vision2020 Post Ted Moffett</div>