*Facts on China***
China has 19% of the world’s population, but consumes...
53% of the world's cement
48% of the world's iron ore
47% of the world's coal
.... and the majority of just about every other major commodity.
In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United
States .
New World Record: China made and sold 18 million vehicles in
2010.
There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing
nations combined.
China currently has the world’s fastest train and the world’s
largest high-speed rail network.
China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind
and solar power, but don’t use it themselves. While they manufacture 80%
of the world’s solar panels, they install less than 5% and
build a new coal fired power station every week. In one year they turn on
more new coal powered electricity than Australia 's total
output.
China currently controls more than 90% of the total global
supply of rare earth elements.
In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14th place to 2nd
place in the world in published scientific research articles.
China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire
globe. At the end of March 2011, China accumulated US$3.04 trillion in
foreign currency reserves
--the largest stockpile on the entire globe.
Chinese people consume 50,000 cigarettes every second
They are already the largest carbon dioxide emitter and their
output will rise 70% by 2020.
And we think we're saving the planet?! It will not make one
iota of difference what we do in Australia, Canada, the United States or
anywhere else in the world; for that matter, all the
politicians are doing is increasing our cost of living and making our
manufacturers uncompetitive in the world market, with their
idiotic carbon tax, when countries like china are growing and consuming at
these extraordinary rates!
* Time to wake up!*
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