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China has abruptly slowed and halted work on building 22 major dams and power stations in a dramatic greening of the policies of the world's most populous nation.

The surprise move - one of the most dramatic ever undertaken by any government - arises from rapidly growing environmental concern in China.

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But even before the latest move, China had already done far more than the US to combat the danger of climate change. Although its emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, rose rapidly between 1978 and 1996, they then fell sharply as a result of clean-up measures. US government figures suggest emissions dropped by 17 per cent between 1996 and 2000, while the Chinese economy grew by 36 per cent. During the same period, US emissions grew by 5 per cent.

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[ February 14, 2005, 12:08 PM: Message edited by: The Rabbit ]
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
I'm confused - why is stopping a hydroelectric project good for CO2 emissions?

The rest is pretty cool, though.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
That's probably more about local ecology than CO2.
 

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Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
 
Yah, green doesn't just mean less nukes and more flowers. Damming up water ways causes a lot of environmental wreckage around the site of it if the areas aren't chosen wisely. Still, this is good stuff.
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
I am really, really, really susupicious that we're not getting the whole story here.
 

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Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
 
The real story is that they are using the surplus population to push giant wheels around to provide power for the rest of them! Kind of a win-lose on the environmental-social justice front.


 

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