Jan 25, 2008 1:49:28 AM cite

That would be terrible. India just introduced a $2,000 car. What is that going to mean for global warming? The developing world becoming Westernized is going to be very, very troublesome for so many reasons. This earth cannot support more fumes, more factories, more pressure from us. There isn't enough earth to go around for Western lifestyles, there's just not. It's not a matter of opinoin, it's a matter of money and square space. If everyone is popular, no one is. If everyone is like America the entire planet is just going to completely implode I think.

by eco_savvy

Oct 4, 2007 10:53:26 AM cite

Imagine how much worse the situation would be if each one wanted a Jumbo Jet!

by Rebel

Jun 9, 2007 3:29:00 AM cite

Hey that's an easy one! Wonder why I have to solve your problems!? ----- HERE IT IS ... Half of the western population sells their car to China, so that now every Chinese has one! ----- Half of the western population still has a car, which means that the average person in the west has one (something that the industry eagerly tried to achieve for many years) ... AND GUESS WHAT: there wasn't even an increase in CO2 exhaust!

by __anon_70489252

Sep 29, 2006 11:00:40 PM cite

I would suggest that a more question might be: ‘What if all people want a car?’ As with all things taken to excess, there will be a point where saturation is reached, and the notion will be abandoned.

by RedSevenOne

Sep 17, 2006 8:41:41 PM cite

I hope these sessions will result in more incise responses than that of Mr Geert.

by imding

Sep 14, 2006 2:15:50 PM cite

This would be a big problem, because China has about 1.3 Billion inhabitants. If everyone want/has a car I think at first the citys will burst over. There isn't enough space for all these cars. They can't drive, they have no space for praking theires cars. Moreover that the industry isn't able to produce so much cars in a short time. The climate would collaborate, because of all the CO² and emissions... I think this would be a case, the world can't deal with. So for the future when more and more Chinese people get a car, the industry have to invent cars producing less emissions.

by BenS

Sep 14, 2006 1:32:35 PM cite

In my humble opinion the chinese haven't enough money to buy a car. So that this situation would never happen. But if they could all buy a car and drive with it through their beautiful country the world would be destroyed.

by Phex

Sep 11, 2006 5:11:46 AM cite

For one thing, if they all had cars, in the resulting traffic Jam, the entire country would grind to a halt.

by thedoc

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva: It´s a little bit racist question. The thing that bothers me is that in Germany every family has two cars, hasn´t it? It´s the same thing in America. Chinese people want to have a car. It can be ... Everybody understands it can be a big catastrophe because it is not only about China but about India and another countries where million, million people live. But why I don´t begin from myself, "my own garden"? Why I don´t think about why I am driving the car, why I use the car, why I am not going by bus, why I am not going by tram, why not? For what do I need so many things that use so much energy? Why do I take a bath instead of taking a shower? Why do I leave the tap running when I am brushing my teeth? For this action which takes only three minutes I use, maybe, two hundred liter water! At the same time people in the other part of the world have no water and they must go three, five or ten kilmeter to bring some dirty water. Why? You know ... This is a question! Why are we doing this and what can it be?!

by Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Abbas Beydoun: Well, everyone in China has the right to own a car... If we consider that to be a disaster we should take attention right now.

by Abbas Beydoun

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Alvaro Restrepo: Why Chinese? What if every single person wants a car? Chinese are not the problem, eventhough there are many of them. Cars are a big problem, they are a tragedy. We must completely redefine the principle of people's displacement and transportation. Automobiles are a big mistake, an authentic tragedy.

by Alvaro Restrepo

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Ana Lucy Bengochea:

by Ana Lucy Bengochea

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Andries Botha: Well I’m sure all Chinese people, most Chinese people want a car. Why shouldn’t they. Andrew, I guess we’re staring down the barrel of that gun. I think the pressure on the oil markets at the moment are measured by the kind of renewed and expanded demand that the emerging economies have for fuel. These would be India or China. So we’ve seen for instance an ecological system that no longer can sustain the kind of energy that we are burning. So, you know, yeah. Maybe it’s good that all Chinese people will have a car and that the end will arrive sooner than later, and that we can then as I say develop a response. Because people are not going to be preemptive. They are going to be reactive. Intelligence is - human intelligence is always reactive and not preemptive. Or seldom preemptive I should say. So, I regret to say that the scenario isn’t as rosy as one would like. To say that human sensibility will be sufficiently responsive in time to avert what is an inevitability. That the ecosystem will be irreparably or is irreparably damaged.

by Andries Botha

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Angaangaq Lyberth: Answertext will be available soon.

by Angaangaq Lyberth

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Anthony Arnove: Well, there is a couple of different ways we are approaching this question. The reality is, I think we have to expose that the dominant way that this question is asked is in a racist way, which is premised on the idea that, well, it’s okay for us -- first of all, it’s okay for us in the United States to have developed a certain form of irrational public -- privatized transportation, which involved a systematic destruction of public transportation and more environmentally and also socially sustainable forms of transportation by arranging collective public transportation. Instead we have a privatized system of transportation, which was established very consciously by the auto industry, by the rubber industry, by the steel industry, and by people who had an economic stake in developing a model of privatized auto purchase and use, and it has created a whole political, economic framework to sustain and drive that economy. That economy is utterly irrational. It leads to such overproduction that the world auto industry produces as many cars as -- are bought each year twice over, and is creating tremendous unnecessary waste because of their lack of planning, a further example of the absurdities of the capitalist system. And now, you see the encouragement of a similar process in China. And the consequences are quite frightening, but they have to be seen in the context of [audio ends].

by Anthony Arnove

Sep 9, 2006 2:20:00 PM cite

Anuradha Koirala: I noticed that if they all want car I think it is a good thing that everybody has a car but how to maintain it, how to, you know -- how can you afford [the kind of car you want] to buy and I think it will be better off than anything. That day when everybody has a car it will be, the country will be -- we have to hope the country will be most economically independent.

by Anuradha Koirala