Think about it.
1,200,000,000 people. That's how many times our population?
Bryan
FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
> What's next ??? There is a recent book called "China Rising"
> that can give all of us a preview of things to come ....... Let's just
> say that the world our children and grandchildren will live and work in
> will be quite different than the one we have known and enjoyed so very
> much. Among the many other things that China now consumes in huge
> quantities is concrete, and I've read and heard that they are now using
> over one half of all the concrete produced in the entire world. One of
> their huge motorcycle factories runs 24 hours a day/year round, and
> their annual production is more than all of the Harley-Davidson assembly
> plants combined produce in a ten year period. The turbine room in the
> gigantic new Three Gorges Dam being built on the Yangtze river is a half
> a mile long, and each of the 18 turbine/ generator sets cost over 150
> million dollars. Oil and steel are being used in immense quantities
> that either rival the figures of this country, or soon will.
>
> ~ Nothing is Certain But Change ~ Let's hope it is for the
> overall benefit of most, if not all of us, on this Big Blue Marble
> ....... and to those here on this lsr list : DO what car-building and
> racing you can NOW, WHILE you still CAN ...............
> ~ BDF ~
> TAKE TIME FOR OTHERS --- FOR THINGS CAN CHANGE SO QUICKLY
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