Can China's Wind Power Save the Planet?

Chinas pledge to have 15 percent of its energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 is hampered by the countrys coal dependency, a reliance that has succeeded in making it the fastest growing economy and also the largest greenhouse gas producer on the planet (recently surpassing the United States). The latter is a problem China hopes to solve with wind power, Nation contributing editor Christian Parenti elaborates on the growing industry of wind turbines, fans with the potential to increase local productivity, reduce harmful pollution and ultimately wean China off its coal addiction.

Read Christian Parenti's article here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/parenti

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[GeorgeGreekTrucker]

Mr. Parenti a big thank you for the eye-opening info.

[supra16]

lol...china did invest in the US..now US is in debt by how many billions..

DONT INVEST SHIT

[Plastering4u]

China has now replaced the US as the world's largest installer of wind power

[adventurenox]

Reducing the work week to four days reduces the amount of labour available to an employer in from a given employee by 1/5th. To maintain their level of production they need to hire 1/5th more employees. Thus more jobs. There are many other benefits as well.

[DaHonestAbe]

I'm sure you're right, but how so?

[marniespeaks]

no one is stopping you from tossing the manufacturing Americans businessman out- be my guest providing them with some of that Chinese justice - go for it!

Jesus, I thought you guys were Maoist commies what happen to the cultural revolution?

A few billion people and you can't take your country back from a few corrupted individuals?

you have turned into slave?

[jimmyjamesWang]

fuck you, you fucking redneck yank. Fucking rich people in your country came to us, enslaved our people to work our ass off to get what? 80 percents of the profits made by those "made in China" products went to american investors and the american government, while our own enviornment were destroyed! Fuck you, get your fucking shitty dollars out of my country! We would rather live as peasants! At least we would be healthy peasants with a blue sky and clean water!

[jimmyjamesWang]

Only a fool like you who knows nothing about economics would say stupid things like this.