Climate Change Concerns: A wind from the east blows good...

... For neither man nor beast.

And it won’t be long before the wind blowing from China comes bearing more coal soot than you can shake a stick at.


China’s economy is now the second biggest in the world.

Also, according to the International Energy Agency, “China is now the world’s biggest consumer of energy and burns about half of the world’s total coal production.” (Gwynne Dyer, Aug. 21, London Free Press)

China also now makes “makes more cars than any other country in the world. Indeed, it makes as many as Japan and the US together.”

So, add more than a titch of greasy smog to the soot soon to be coming our way.

And, if you didn’t know already, “as long ago as 2007, China became the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.”

Soot, greasy smog, greenhouse gases. The triple whammy.


["The cheapest, healthiest source of energy?": photos GH]

Recommendation: If you don’t like the sound and smell of the winds from the east, then get off the cheap-goods-from-China consumption habit.

Stay out of Wal-Mart and The Dollar Store and any other that is supplied chiefly by China and cheap labour.

Slow down the big coal and big oil engine and save money for the future at the same time.

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