Not just China.We waste resources&pollute the environment to build things to throw away, to keep peolple working to tame the masses.Perhaps more manual labour, more cycling,walking etc would be better for us all, even good exercise.It's like the farmers spending so much on tractors when maybe a horse&plough could overall be better for us all? I know that if things were so good when it was like that why did they they change it to now, but maybe some retrospective combination of human&animal power as opposed to oil(etc) based elbow grease is worth considering?
