Survey - 76% Of Young Chinese Concerned About Warming, 76% Also Want To Buy A Car ASAP - AFP

[hatrack]

Most of China's urban youth are concerned about global warming, but not enough to forsake the luxury of owning a car or other perks of being rich, state media said Monday, citing a survey.

According to the survey of 2,500 people aged on average 30 years in cites across the country, 76 percent said they did what they could to save energy, the China Youth Daily reported. However, with monthly income averaged at 2,977 yuan (392 dollars), 76 percent would like to buy a car once they have enough money.

The results showed that the young people would like to protect the environment and support sustainable consumption, but only if their living standards were not impacted, according to the survey.

Thirty-eight percent of the respondents wanted to own a big house and 21 percent wanted to travel abroad, while 78 percent expected the government to take the responsibility of protecting the environment.

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http://www.terradaily.com/2007/070820105404.qqob97bf.html

[Taverner]

1. They can have both

China's auto mfctr is working on an affordable plug in...they are going to have to go that route...

[phantom power]

2. I bet not many Chinese can afford a $30K vehicle.

I'm not really sure many Americans can either. I think we'll see some interesting shifts in buying patterns, now that the credit crunch is building up momentum.

[Taverner]

3. Oh they'll just build the thing out of cyanide and sell it for 5K

:P

Seriously, their economy is rising while ours stagnates and dips down. Soon they will be able to afford a 30K car

[phantom power]

4. Heh. I'm pretty sure building it out of cyanide is how they got it down to $30K.

metaphorically speaking...

I think that the unfolding http://www.paulchefurka.ca">World Goat Fuck may kill China's economic renaissance before it's even finished being born.

[Taverner]

5. Whether or not we survive Peak Oil depends on who goes to the WH in 2008

Ghouliani? We're toast.

a dem - we might have a fighting chance.

[hatrack]

6. Hey, Phantom (totally OT) - was it you who recommended "Under A Green Sky"?

Or was it GliderGuider - can't remember.

If it wasn't you, be sure to check it out - by Peter Ward, who's a paleontologist and has also done some related paleoclimate work.

[phantom power]

7. That was GG. I read an overview of it, and I blacked out.

[hatrack]

8. If you remember only one thing from the book you didn't read, let it be this:

Current anthropogenic CO2 emissions are running 100X faster than the rate before any prior extinction events - PETM, Permian, Triassic, take your pick.

One hell of a book - he has an especially bracing description of a day in Nevada during the Norian - toasty!

[phantom power]

9. Yes, actually I recall you posting that tidbit last year...

or maybe it was the year before. I think that was the post where I coined "OFHWAD."

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Can you post it again?

I'm curious now and I did a Google search for it, but came up empty.

[NickB79]

11. Sweet, plug-in cars to tap into China's vast coal-fired energy infrastructure

And they're affordable to boot! What can possibly go wrong? I mean, they're only building 3 coal-fired plants per WEEK now. What's a few more gigatons of carbon between friends?

[Systematic Chaos]

12. Maybe they could invent a new compound, made of lead and melamine,

which would make the soot smell all sweet and flowery! Then it will all be okay, right?

:sarcasm:

:wtf: are they gonna do over there when there's no untainted land left to grow freaking rice????

[Kolesar]

13. They banned spitting in China for the Olympics, but you need to spit to expel the soot out ...

... of your throat in those filthy towns. I was listening and NPR segment of an athletic trainer discussing how people are training for that "particular" community.