From an article on China's ghost towns.Originally Posted by The Atlantic magazine
From an article on China's ghost towns.Originally Posted by The Atlantic magazine
Al Jazeera was reporting on the ghost cities in China a year ago. The big catastrophe facing China is WATER.Originally Posted by thonglor55
And China is not alone in this regard. Forget about oil, which you can live without. You cannot live without water.
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While growth in crop yields continues to decline:
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While China now consumes like crazy:
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