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What if all Chinese people want a car? Andrew from DE


Answer

Timothy Speed: For sure, we know the problem. If every Chinese drove a car, we would be facing an ecological disaster. If I ask myself how to solve this problem, the answer is that it can only be evaded if we, the Western states in Europe and America, stop being an ecological threat ourselves. I don’t think that we can expect people in China to do without the progress, which we praised for such a long time, if we don’t solve our own problems. I think we have to return to our own values. As long as we aren’t able to answer theses questions for our own country or to develop alternatives for our own country, [we can’t reach the Chinese]. In these countires progress has just begun, they start to enjoy progress. Progress has positive sides as well. The individual progress, which happens in China, is not only negative, like progress in our country wasn’t only negative. It has many positive sides, which allow new forms of freedom to enter the country. I think that for the highly complicated problems, which we are facing today, the only possibility for advancement is to start to develop ourselves. We have to start to look for solutions for these complex problems. How we can handle a situation when society and development reach equal technologies.