State of the World 2006: China and India
The Earth lacks the energy, arable land and water to enable populous and fast-growing China and India to attain Western levels of resource consumption, the Worldwatch Institute said in a report on Wednesday.
The Worldwatch Institute said booming China and India, once sleepy backwaters in the world economy, are becoming not only economic powers, but "planetary powers that are shaping the global biosphere" and affecting world economic policies.
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From the Foreword:
"The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources—energy and materials—and generates enormous waste. The industrialized world has mitigated the adverse impacts of wealth generation by investing huge amounts of money. But... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory."
Sunita Narain
Director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India
The Worldwatch Institute said booming China and India, once sleepy backwaters in the world economy, are becoming not only economic powers, but "planetary powers that are shaping the global biosphere" and affecting world economic policies.
Read more here.
From the Foreword:
"The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources—energy and materials—and generates enormous waste. The industrialized world has mitigated the adverse impacts of wealth generation by investing huge amounts of money. But... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory."
Sunita Narain
Director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India
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