CNNI: China warned on global warming effects

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China's economic development and environment are like two trains heading straight at each other, but the Chinese government refuses to put caps greenhouse gasses. I think they (as well as all of us) will find out in a most extreme manner just how much one's economy and environment depend on one another.

One quote that baffled me:

"This environmental upheaval could derail the ruling Communist Party's plans for sustainable development, a copy of the report obtained by Reuters says."

China's development growing at a rate of double-digits per year is anything BUT sustainable.

China warned on global warming effects
POSTED: 0833 GMT (1633 HKT), April 23, 2007

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Global warming could devastate China's development, the nation's first official survey of climate change warns, while insisting economic growth must come before greenhouse gas cuts.

Hotter average global temperatures fueled by greenhouse gases mean that different regions of China are likely to suffer spreading deserts, worsening droughts and floods, shrinking glaciers and rising seas, the National Climate Change Assessment states.

This environmental upheaval could derail the ruling Communist Party's plans for sustainable development, a copy of the report obtained by Reuters says.

"Climatic warming may have serious consequences for our environment of survival as China's economic sectors, such as agriculture and coastal regions, suffer grave negative effects," the report states.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/china.global.warming.reut/

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1. In this case "Sustainable development" seems to just mean "Sustained development". n/t