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Originally Posted by GuidoK
On the other hand they take extreme measures like road space rationing where the one day only even numberplates are allowed to drive and the other day only uneven numberplates to reduce the air pollution.
Can you imagine such a measure in the US?!? : "no sir...you're not allowed to drive today"
Something thàt extreme will never be possible in the US, yet China is doing that for nearly 10 years now when air pollution reaches unhealthy concentrations.
A pretty shining example I think?
Obviously measures like this have a very big impact on the economy, so they try to avoid it by promoting electric cars and electrich scooters (which are really popular). Far more than in the US.
A US citizen has one of the largest carbon footprints of all people in the world. The carbon footprint of a chinese citizen is nothing compared to that (almost 250% less per person...).
And in the end that's what counts, so the US still has to come a very long way before they're in the same league as most countries in the world...
So whatever you're calling 'not a shining example of environmentalism'; is still over twice as good as what the US does if you measure actual pollution per person. Those are the facts.
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Vehicle ownership per capita: 0.797 in US vs. 0.140 in China;
Total rail passenger-miles: 6.5 billion in US vs. 725 billion in China.
Freedom in US comes at a price, and I certainly enjoy that freedom, coming from China.