tarquin1 said..
www.sustainability-times.com/expert/a-safe-and-profitable-nuclear-plant-is-closing-in-france-why/
Don't worry France is firing up their old coal stations because they have shut down a nuclear reactor. So they are doing their best to increase the CO2.
Also as mentioned nothing on a large scale gets manufactured in France any more.
Try the made in China test. Don't touch or look at something made in China for 24 hrs.
The rest of the world can't bitch and complain about China's pollution whilst mass consuming from them.
Thats just my dumb ass opinion though.

AUS 808 said..
Stop selling them Coal and stop buying cheap crap

evlPanda said..
The elephant in the room almost nobody wants to acknowledge is population.
I think going forward, as regions are lifted out of an industrial state, populations will decrease. if it weren't for migration Australia's population would be decreasing. Typical first world.

evlPanda said..




...he says, using every made in China to say it.

Carantoc said..






... is the population of China more than North America, EU, UK, India, Japan and Aus combined ?

I'd suggest the answer to both questions is "no".

Haircut said..
I'm all for a shrinking and ageing population to prevent further climate and environmental damage

i mean, 50 year olds look hotter today than they did 10 years ago, right?

JasonProsser said..
I think very few people are aware of what happens in China and where this economic growth started. It's worth looking at their governments successes to gain an insight into why the growth took place.
"In 2015, the government of the People's Republic of China initiated the "Decisions of the Central Committee of the CCP and the State Council on Winning the Battle of Poverty Eradication" with the aim to lift 70 million of the rural population above the poverty line until 2020."
This has been an almost universal success, however to achieve this goal, the previously unforeseen environmental impacts have been it's payoff.
Have a search on Google for China's environmental success stories - there are many - and you might find that their current goal for their people is for clean air and clean water. China leads the way on many environmentally friendly and sustainable initiatives. They currently manufacture all the electric taxi's that London has demanded come into action. They also manufacture much of the Worlds solar panels and are starting to decommission fossil fuel power stations. Don't be fooled by the media machine that only wants to feed you one side of the story. Go looking for facts to the contrary. You can spin the facts whatever way you want, but please be open to looking for a different reality.