Last Chinese Christmas
2009-12-23
Like every year for the past decade, it will be a Chinese
Christmas in the Czech Republic. Chances are that at least half
of the items under the tree in a typical home will come from the
Middle Kingdom. Ah, if only this were the last Christmas
dominated by junk that never should have been made, much
less bought. No one knows for sure what impact the
Copenhagen climate-change conference will have, but let's hope
it leads to a general realization in the West that we will soon be
paying climate ransom to developing countries so that they can
keep making high-emissions products that we can only afford
to buy because of the money China lends us. The simpler
solution would be to quit making most of that crap. Of course
that would require the nations of the world to agree on a list of
allowable low-carbon-footprint products. Another reason to call
a global summit that China can dominate.
[Czech Republic Denmark CO2]
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