2003-07-17
... ? CNN.com - U.N.:World can't afford rich China - Jul. 16, 2003China's ambitious economic growth plans are environmentally unachievable because the world does not have enough resources to allow its 1.3 billion people to become Western-style consumers, a U.N. official has said. Klaus Toepfer, head of the U.N. Environment Program, said Wednesday China's aim of quadrupling its economy by 2020 can only occur if developed nations radically change their consumption habits to free up scarce resources for the world's poor.
