Donate your jobs!
Jobs or no jobs. If China continues to boom, natural resources will become increasingly scarce and prices will rise accordingly. That is an economic problem to start with, but it is much worse what is actually done with the raw materials. The processes involved in refining raw materials through to the production of the final product burden the Earth with yet more fumes and filth. If I think about the energy need to produce a ton of aluminium... Aluminium smelter in Hamburg (HAW). I will not go into comparisons. If China now adopts our system of consumption, financed in part through credit, and busily exploits natural resources, then there will soon be no raw materials left, and we will find our environment has changed. It will be irrelevant who has a job and who doesn't. China and other developing economic powers are also able to completely change the world by adopting the western way of life. We no longer call the tune, we must try to adapt instead. Whatever...
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