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My circle of friends are actively working to reduce our carbon footprints. Many of us have installed solar PV cells on our roofs, we ride our bikes to work, plant trees, etc. While I feel this is important - if millions of us make an effort the effects are measurable - the sheer magnitude of the growth of China and India leaves me less than sanguine about the environmental future of our planet. It is unreasonable for those of us in the developed world to expect that the people of these countries would not want to join in the consumerism and personal mobility we have enjoyed for the past century... but the cost to humanity at large is staggering.
NoLimits May 21, 2008