China and the Environment

I bought the American publication Foreign Affairs this week, primarily because there was an article on the coming environmental collapse in China. I look around at the world and so much that we discuss seems to ignore the fact that we live as part of an eco system.

We preen ourselves, try and separate ourselves from nature as much as possible, we get embarrassed when we talk about toilets..we discuss to the nth degree how countries, education system can be run efficiently, and most importanly how to keep our wealth expanding. Yet we cannot escape it we are part of nature and part of an eco sytem.

You go to dinner parties and people discuss obscure books and artists and how they are going to transform their properties.. yet.... where is there any acknowledgement that the most important thing in this world is to live sustainably both from a consumption and a population perspective.

The Earth is suffering from a tragedy of the commons and our generation will perhaps be the most hated in the history of mankind. China's coming environment collapse..... are you sure it will be just China's?