[lbo-talk] British to help China build 'eco-cities'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 8 14:40:17 PST 2005


Leigh Meyers wrote:


>Yep, China is going to build 10 new cities outside Beijing where the working
>people will live while the rich stay behind in Beijing and aimlessly
>drive their
>SUVs around without the risk of running over some overworked prole bicyclist
>too tired to pay attention to the traffic and the SUV's blaring horn... did I
>mention the driver owns an SUV and is rich? It bears repetition.

How do you know this? There's nothing in the article that says anything like this. You just shooting from the lip, or do you have some info to back it up?

I keep reading/hearing things about how the Chinese are serious about energy efficiency and a new environmental paradigm. Have you heard differently in SC?

Doug



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