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Each year, the Chinese economy consumes one quarter of the world's total production of coal...
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...while the average person in China consumes one quarter of the energy of someone in Europe.
Figures from OU Environment course, picture taken in Shanghai in 2005. The Shanghai economy has been growing by around 10% each year.
I've been watching a film on development and energy demand in China. A tenfold increase in wind power in the next decade, the 3 Gorges Dam with 54 generators producing the equivalent of nearly three quarters of the entire electricity demand for the UK, methane plants powered by the waste from 100,000 pigs at a time, and yet more coal, to a population of over 1.3 billion people.
China produces the kind of statistics that make you go cross-eyed.
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Vodafone World of Difference (@WOD_UK) applications close 30 July -but only 10% would work to protect the environment?
A promotional poll on Facebook suggests that only 10% of those who voted would take a paid year out (up to £25,000 plus £20,000 in expenses) to 'Protect the environment'. 61% would 'Change people's lives', and 29% would 'Help endangered species'.
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The Prelude
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