China , India..ask Brahma if you can stop having so many babies?

Can Our Planet Support the Rise of China and India?. Two of Washington's environmental think tanks warn that the economic boom in China and India could present one of the world's gravest threats to the environment. The two countries have 2.5 billion people, or nearly 40% of the world's population. China eats up one-third of the world's rice, over one-quarter of the world's steel and nearly half of its cement. The Earth cannot supply these countries' rising demands for energy, food, and raw materials. The use of oil has doubled in India since 1992, while China has becoming the world's second largest importer in 2004. Prices worldwide have soared as India and China scooped up shares in oil companies. The US is still the greatest burner of oil, using 25% of global annual supplies and producing 25% of carbon. The average US citizen requires about 9.7 hectares to provide resources and space for waste, 205% of what the country can provide. That figure is only 1.6 hectares for the average Chinese, or 201% of the country's capacity, and 0.8 hectares for the average Indian, or 210% of the country's capacity. Both India and China have programs to use renewable energies. India now aims to raise its share of renewable energies to 20% to 25%. China and India are signatories of the Kyoto Protocol, but as developing nations they are exempted from cutting their emissions. China has taken voluntary measures which have had a very positive impact. J

China , India..ask Brahma if you can stop having so many babies?
More pertnant question will be: Can the west withstand the rise of China and India?
Reply:We do what we gotta do to survive...
Reply:The average American uses around 60 times more energy than the average Indian.





Shouldn't we all be thinking about smaller families?
Reply:Damn those Chinese! So, they are the ones eating all of the rice! I knew it. Let;'s sneak over there and get some of it! But, they are really nice people. Let's get the Indians. No one likes them. You know what? They like rice, too! So, let's just get rid of those Indians, take their rice and leave the nice Chinese alone.