China Predicts The Elimination Of Poverty and Increase in Life Expectancy to 85 by 2050.

[NNadir]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Average life expectancy in China will jump 13 years to 85 years and all households will be lifted out of poverty by the middle of the century, Chinese academics forecast in a report issued in state media on Monday.

The number of years a Chinese child spends in school will almost double to 14 years and an increasingly affluent population will spend a far smaller proportion of their income on food, the official China Daily said, citing a 20-volume report called an Outline for China's Sustainable Development.

But the weighty report, put together by 184 academics and policy makers mainly from the influential Chinese Academy of Sciences, warned a growing population and environmental problems posed risks to China's sustainable development...

...Large swathes of China are affected by chronic air pollution from factories, vehicles and coal-burning power plants. Water and land pollution have poisoned many other parts of the country...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070212/wl_nm/china_lifeexpectancy_dc_3

In other news, Greenpeace, thirsting for new Chinese members, announced that half of the 800 million new Energy Star rated 60 inch flat screen HDTV's will be powered by solar cells by 2050.

[HappyWeasel]

1. maybe this is a way to test the enviro modernisation theory

[NNadir]

2. Never heard of it. What is it?

[phantom power]

3. And the Dow will be at 36000!

[Massacure]

4. I like how it says life expectency will jump 13 years to 85 years.

So I guess that means Chinese citizens will live to be between 85 and 157 years old. That's not the greatest way to word a news article.

[NNadir]

5. You know, I didn't catch that.

Great grammar police work!!!.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Wow. Not from the Onion. Wow.

I've heard of optimism, but that takes the cake.

So who wants to read through this twenty volume "outline" and offer a critique?

[hatrack]

7. Feel free to compare & contrast with the Spiegel article I just posted

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not the same, one of these things isn't even remotely grounded in reality . . .