Comment Re:Obvious (Score 1) 620
The "real" difference is that the Chinese government will undoubtedly be building this new "green" city the same way it builds everything else... On the backs of its citizens. You need look no further than the legions of poverty stricken families that have been building the metropolis that is the modern Shanghai without the hope of ever being able to live in it.
Note: That's just a small selection out of about 500 million hopelessly impoverished people in China. The official Chinese figure is 23.65 million people living below the poverty line, but the Chinese government's definition of a poverty line is virtual starvation. Some figures have as much as 75% of China's people living in relative poverty to the rest of the population.
I'm sure China's government will ultimately succeed in building its green utopia and restore it prestige with the rest of the world without using any fossil fuels. Certainly a noble and an important goal for any developed country to have. It's just too bad not enough people will notice the mountain of bones it'll be built on.
