And I think India now has more people than China! 2 countries with 1/4
the world's population. How long will it be before they can start
demanding that things are done their way..
mayf
Bryan Savage wrote:
> 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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