On Jul 13, 5:33*am, "Chas. Chan" wrote:
In fact, China alone is now the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse
gases and its economy will surpass the United States’ by mid-century
if not sooner.

Pass US by mid-century? I guess that's not bad for ten times as
many people.

Here's the thing. Unless it gets greenhouse gases under control
it won't need to worry about passing US economically. Maybe it
can go Soylent Green. (While it's a cheezy movie that postulates
machines can't run at relatively low tempratures for machines but
high for humans, economics will drive up the cost of the fuel to
pump out those greenhouse gases. Unless China is as stupid as
we are and subsidizes fuels that produce greenhouse gasses it
will substitute cheaper alterenatives as they come on line.)

America has already seen a shift in our population to warmer
climate "races". Does China have the necessary mix for
population substitution based upon climate change?