Re: china embarrases the posturers by bringing the 'emissions' debate down to earth....


"abelard" <abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global
warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the
population of the United States."

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44046/story.htm
" But avoiding 300 million births "means we averted 1.3 billion tonnes
of carbon dioxide in 2005" based on average world per capital
emissions of 4.2 tonnes, he said.

If that 300 million had been living in the US they would have produced over
5 billion tonnes.


A country emitting 1.3 billion tonnes a year would rank just ahead of
Germany on a global list of emitters behind only the United States,
China, Russia, India and Japan."
...
"...world population is projected to soar to about 9 billion by 2050
from 6.6 billion now."

regards...

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