China emerges as global consumer
China emerges as global consumer
With a booming economy and 1.3bn people, it is now the world's largest consumer of grain, meat, coal and steel, said the Earth Policy Institute.
But China's insatiable demands are putting ever more pressure on the country's natural resources.
Air and water pollution are already serious problems, and there is talk of a looming ecological crisis.
China is well ahead of the US in the consumption of goods such as television sets, refrigerators and mobile phones, according to the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute.
China is not only the now the largest consumer, but its economy is growing at an explosive rate. This in context with the Kyoto Treaty, explains why our signing just isn't that great of an idea. Nations such as China and India who have few polution controls are exempted.
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