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And your point is?

Posted by Charlton Heston | April 24, 2008 10:10 AM
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If you want to see China today, pick up the new National Geographic. It will destroy your mind. Seriously. Everything you've heard about China is true, only 1,000 times more so. Entire cities of millions of people where everybody makes buttons, almost all the buttons in the world! Or paintings! There's a city where 60% of all the world's oil paintings are made. Shanghai ain't the half of it; Chongqing is 31 million people now. They're going to have more cars than the US by 2025, and are DOUBLING coal and oil consumption every fifteen years. 50,000 miles of expressways. Vast new subdivisions that look like Levittown. Erica Barnett's worst nightmare, in other words.

Posted by Fnarf | April 24, 2008 10:23 AM
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He's doing bad advertising.

Posted by VDD | April 24, 2008 10:58 AM
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Yeah, but it's not going to be sustainable. Of course, when they collapse in the energy crisis, we'll be fucked too, but hey, at least no one is going to be a "winner" when everything goes to shit.

Posted by Cold Hard Reality | April 24, 2008 4:15 PM

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