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Lee Kuan Yew on the Green movement in China and India

Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: November 18, 2008

From the Staits Times (via China Digital Times):

He singled out China and India as the two populous countries key to resolving the climate change problem during a dialogue with 400 delegates after he a keynote address at the conference

The problem the world faces, he said, is that ‘China and India want to achieve what they think they have missed in life – the quality and standards of living which Japan, Europe and especially the Americans have reached’.

He believed some Chinese are realising that economic growth should not come at the expense of environmental degradation, though he was doubtful they could reach the same sensitivity to the environment as the Europeans within the next 10 or 20 years.

As for India, he did not sense an urgency to act against climate change because industrialisation has proceeded more slowly. But as the country builds up its infrastructure over the next 10 to 20 years, its energy consumption would go up.

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