POPULATION DENSITY per SQ. MI./ NATION/ TOTAL POP
1261 /South Korea/ 48.5 mil.
1054/ Netherlands/ 16.7 "
961/ Israel/ 7.7 "
953/ India/ 1.2 billion
873/ Japan/ 128 mil.
365/ China/ 1.4 billion
264/ Cuba/ 11.2 mil.
83/ USA/ 317 "
60/ Brazil/ 200 "
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density
Some never figure it out. The Chinese historically are a very clever and inventive people. Whether that gift got burned out during the WWII slaughters or courtesy of the Great Cleansings, waits to be seen.
They finally floated an aircraft carrier. It was a rebuild of a Russian hull, cargo I think. This is CY 2013.
We fought and won the Pacific War (1941-1945) largely with aircraft carriers. A hundred or more of them.
The third dimension, as Roosevelt called it. Airplanes, that is.
(And submarines, of course, which decimated the Japanese merchant fleet.)
They are building their III Gen. missile subs now. The first one was recently released for a cruise.
How do you spell w-h-o-l-e s-h-i-p d-e-f-e-c-t-i-o-n?
Their "rescue" ice breaker got stuck in ice when they tried to make it to the marooned Rooskie globaloney warming tour ship.:fall: LOL don't get me started on the irony.
A French ice breaker turned back.
Now it's up to our friends from Oz--who apparently with 20-odd million folks still build a better ice breaker than a nation with 70 times the population and uncountable cash reserves, as well as the finest stolen technology, up the wazoo--to make it through to rescue Ivan and the Envirowakkoz. Or the Reds and Greens you might say.
So, some folks never do master modern technology as well as one would expect. Aeroflot flight, anyone?
Perhaps one day China will flood the world with excellent cheap tin imitations of the quality cars produced by US-America, the Euros, and fellow Asians.
Have something to do with freedom? Nah, that's silly.
I think the lesson n China us people want cars AND air to breathe. Sounds like the real race is for zero emissions and electrification. Or course that's a bit ironic considering their commitment to dirty coal power plants...
I read long ago that some of the cleanest US cars actually emitted cleaner air than they inhaled, in the dirtiest places. Perhaps the solution to China's pollution is to produce US-grade non-polluters and then drive them around in their cities until the air cleans up.
China is racing for power and wealth. Given their pollution, that makes the old Soviet Union's gajillions of gallons of toxic waste look like central Park in comparison, and the black skies in every major city that's not a tourist trap for gullible enlightened Westerners, the whole eastern half of the country will probably disappear under a dark cloud.
Unfortunately we are downwind.
VW is sucking all the earths natural resources out of the ground for the now, for a quick euro in the back pocket now. China is producing 20 million cars mainly Ching-Chong VW's from just 22,000 cars a year in the 1970's China's golden "green" age when billions of Chinese used to be happy & contented to zero emission cycle to the paddy fields for a fair days pay, a bowl of rice breathing clean fresh air.
Choking to death on black coal powered smog today is progress? Still at least the health & safety is getting better these days, at least they fit suicide nets at the factory's the Chinese have never had it so good?
Won't be to long before the oil that feeds and the lubes the worlds auto industry runs dry a lot quicker. Shame on you VW you would sell your own Mother to a stranger for a quick few Euros profit in China..
Millions of happy Chinese peasants during their "green era"? LOL, what history book did you grab hold of? "Chairman Mao's History of the Happy Starving Slaughtered Chinese Peasantry"?
A fair days pay? Maybe that used to fly pre-internet when the government could shut them out of what the rest of the world was like, but now China has a goal of being NUMERO UNO in terms of richest country on the planet. They are having their industrial revolution, and part of that is the people gaining the ability for freely moving about the country, as well as an increase in salary to pay for their new 1st world lifestyle.
Also, the rest of your comment makes no sense. Shame on you VW? Because they sold more cars than GM in China? Would you say "Shame on GM for sucking the earth dry of oil" if GM was the Chinese sales king?
Yes, shame shame shame.
China is building a lot of plants without controls at all. That's the biggest issue. The second is that they do not have standard regulations like the US, they are just worried about getting the capacity up and running.
And they're getting them up and running. In fact, to keep some of the happy well-paid unionized 40-hour/wk labor force busy they've built dozens of ghost cities. Good place for the UN building, but that's another discussion.
That's not necessarily true either. It really depends on the definition of pollution your using. I work in power generation and do a lot with pollution and controls. I'm fortunate to work with a guy who is known world wide for his research in this area (I generally work on the mechanics of actually making controls work, I get bored working in only theories!). And there is some very interesting research going on about PM at the moment. From a harm standpoint some "pollution" is regulated by particle size. EPA ignores what the particles are, they just care about the size (do some PM 2.5 googling). But research is showing that it depends a lot on what the particles are. Power plants tend to emit more organics than cars and as such are theoretically less dangerous. With others EPA only looks at emissions on a "per unit" basis and even then power plants are generally lower than cars.
the argument is really more of a political one than a scientific one. The government is driven by environmentalists for reduction results,but the truth is we still don't know what type of particle is the most dangerous.
Cars in the US emit more of many types "pollution" than power plants. The issue is that there is something like 255 million vehicles in the US. It's a lot harder to manage 255 million individual sources than it is a few thousand. It's also easier to go after industry retroactively than individuals who own cars. Could you imagine doing maintenance on you car then having to "upgrade" the pollution controls because of it? That might actually lead to rebellion in the US lol!
Well-said.