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		<title>is china&#8217;s one child policy environmentally ethical?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Miller I&#8217;ve been following Andrew Revkin&#8217;s dot Earth blog at the New York Times. The tag-line of the blog is &#8220;Nine Billion People. One Planet&#8221; and is premised on the demographic likelihood that by 2050 the world&#8217;s population will have increased from six to nine billion, effectively adding another two Chinas to what we have already.  At the same time, the populations of China, Brazil and India are developing their economies at a relatively rapid rate which means that those populations will be commanding a larger ecological footprint than they are doing already. China&#8217;s 2001 ecological footprint was 1.5 global hectares per person. Canada&#8217;s was 6.4. Assuming that China&#8217;s economic development will bring about an expansion of its ecological footprint, the results could be catastrophic to say the least. China has 20% of the current world&#8217;s population but only 13% of China&#8217;s land mass is arable land. Economic development, moreover, has brought about a rapid deterioration in the quality of the natural environment, and a shrinking in the amount and quality of arable land. One tenth of China&#8217;s 120 million hectares of arable land is now contaminated, and China seems increasingly unable to provide itself with a necessary level of [...]]]></description>
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