"If the Chinese were ever to consume at the American levels of 2001, they would need to guzzle three times the world's total consumption." This is a quote from China Shakes the World by James Kynge; I recently finished reading this. The book has been around for 5 years or so, and I thought I'd share a some of the things that I found particularly interesting and revealing.
- "Each year since 2004, China has installed the equivalent of all the generating capacity of a country such as Spain"