Why is Canada contemplating building a pipeline that could destroy a large sector of our environment just to fuel China's economy?
China has 19 per cent of the world's population, but consumes 53 per cent of the world's concrete, 48 per cent of the world's iron ore, 47 per cent of the world's coal and the majority of just about every other major commodity. In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United States.
China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power, but the Chinese don't use it themselves. While they manufacture 80 per cent of the world's solar panels, they install less than five per cent and build a new coal-fired power station every week. In one year, they turn on more new coalpowered electricity than Australia's total output.
China controls more than 90 per cent of the total global supply of rare earth elements.
Chinese people consume 50,000 cigarettes every second. They are already the largest carbon dioxide emitter and their output will rise 70 per cent by 2020.
And we think we're saving the planet?
It will not make one iota of difference what we do in Australia, Canada, the U.S. or anywhere else in the world. All the politicians are doing is increasing our cost of living and making our manufacturers uncompetitive in the world market, with their idiotic carbon tax, when countries like China are growing and consuming at these extraordinary rates.
Albert Bruton
Victoria
