From the San Francisco Chronicle:
This is the new Chinese Dream: cars and suburbs. Like the American counterpart, it is good news for many people — but perhaps bad news for Planet Earth. The same economic boom that is catapulting millions of Chinese each year into the middle class has made their country the world’s fastest- growing source of the greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
As China’s thirst for fuel helps push world oil prices to record highs, the country is emerging as a key factor in the debate over climate change — as well as a wild card that could determine the health of the world’s economy.
