How will the worlds environment stand against Chinas economy?
One should be aware at this point that China, influenced heavily by western capitalism, champions unprecedented industrial growth. With an increasing push for more privately owned vehicles, a larger infrastructure, and heightened product manufacturing, China will sit comfortably as the world principle emitter of green-house gases, carbon, particulate emissions and then some. In 2004, “China installed as much new electricity generating capacity, mostly fossil fueled, as the entire electricity output of the U.K.”(13) Such prodigious development has been a hallmark of China’s growth as well as an environmental hazard elsewhere. A consequence of China’s booming coal industry, acid rain precipitates on at least 14 percent of its own country as well as on Japan and South Korea – damaging crops, woodland, and water ecosystems.(14) To make matters worse, as a result of China’s gorging coal industry, 25-40 percent of all mercury emissions in the world come from China- a statistic that will stea
