[grey_whiskers]

"How China mis-used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century"

Remember all the ghost cities?

Fixed it for ya.

No charge.

[txhurl]

One concrete takes that water to mix, it’s removed from the H20 cycle forever.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

Ghost cities indeed!

Around 50 VERY large cities. go t google images or youtube and search for china ghost cities. That'll show you where all that cement went.

BIG problem though. 64 MILLION apartments that cost $300,000. Average Chinese makes about 6k/yr. Requires 50% up front and the rest within 3 yrs. I'd assume you'd lose the first 50% if you couldn't get the 2nd.

And you have to bring your own pluming and wiring.

Like the rest of China's economy, it's all a lie.

[Lorianne]

Yep.

Yet we have nobel prize winning economist lecturing us that all infrastructure spending is good spending whether or not it is put to productive use. As long as it creates jobs (temporarily) and the stock market is humming ... that’s all that matters.

Then we get the very same people lecturing us about over use of energy and resources.