27.11.2015 - China’s carbon footprint grows
China’s ruling Communist Party bases its claim to legitimacy on delivering better lives to the world’s most populous country, and since it embraced the market it has overseen a boom that created a burgeoning middle class, now 300 million strong. Average incomes remain far below those of the United States, but China — now the world’s second largest economy — is already the biggest international market for both cars and smartphones. It is also the worst polluter on the planet, pouring an estimated nine to 10 billion tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the air in 2013...............................................Full Article: Source
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