China's appetite outstripping America's. (China's booming economy fueling tremendous demand for food and natural resources and could have dire environmental consequences)

USA Today (Magazine) | April 1, 1997 | Copyright

China's surging economy is placing enormous pressure on the Earth's natural systems and resources, note Lester R. Brown and Christopher Flavin of the Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C. In the consumption of grain, meat, fertilizer, steel, ad coal, China already has passed the U.S. to lead the world. In use of oil and emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, it is catching up fast.

Although the U.S. still leads the world in consumption of many resources and is far ahead of China in per capita terms for most resources, China's economy has expanded ...

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