Originally Posted by
Dave Cutter
Oh come on. This is apples-to-oranges when comparing China to America. In China the government is busy constructing new cities, While in America we have already begun the long process of deconstructing cities. You won't see many pictures of congested traffic around Detroit or Baltimore will you?!?!? In 50 years ALL American cities could be under deconstruction as well.
I think 100 years ago, America was facing some of the issues of rapid economic growth that China is facing today: rapid industrialization, population movement to cities, and the desire to quickly attain the comforts and conveniences of modern life--especially CARS. Unfortunately for China, they are approaching this at a time when we know that such unrestrained growth isn't possible. There's no way the world can survive a billion gasoline powered cars in China, a billion more in India, and another billion more in other rapidly developing countries around the world. They're going to have to build in some other way--electric cars? high speed rail? "Matrix" type cybernetics? Who knows?