I know that some people out there view the industrialisation of China with absolute horror. They forecast that this will tip the world into an environmental abyss and we will all die, etc.

What nonsense.

Ultimately, China is the solution, not the problem. Chinese enterprise and manufacturing will do a great deal to bring down costs of alternative energy technologies, as it is already.

So I was quite cheered today to read about how the Chairman of Suntech Power Holdings,
Shi Zhengrong, a maker of photovoltaic cells for solar panels is now the 5th richest man in China. Good for him. After all, who could humanely wish for a world where the Chinese stay forever poor?