From: "P. J. Alling"
I would be much happier if the Indians and Chinese became rich enough to buy those cars, they'd stop having so many children and relieve a lot of the stress on all the worlds systems. Rich peoples have fewer children all other things being equal. Actually China is a strange case. Their one child policy has caused a couple of counter intuitive but very real problems, the Chinese have a surplus of young men, boys children being preferred over girls in Chinese society, and demographically a population that's ageing faster than almost any other in Asia. It will be interesting to see what happens there if I live long enough.
I hope they'll manage to figure out a way to get rich without repeating our mistakes.
If every inhabitant of China (and India, SE Asia, S. America & Africa) contributes as much pollution per capita to the world as the U.S. and European populations have in the past two centuries, the planet won't be fit to live on.
Their demographic dislocation is a self correcting problem. Either their male-female imbalance will correct itself in another generation or their population will continue to decline at an accelerating rate. I wish them luck in dealing with it, but I'm not worried that they will.
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