China
China is the fastest developing country in the world today. Knowing this, it is easy to forecast that the Chinese will be the number one country in the world within the decade. The forum in old main was very interesting to hear the statistics come from people of the Chinese culture. China’s sustainability will be hard to maintain due to the massive population size. The amount of resources that will be needed for this population to survive and thrive will put the planet in a state of absolute threshold. Meaning that using the amount of resources needed to fuel this country will push the planet to the very limits of whether it will be able to keep sustaining life or not. I think the one child policy is detrimental to the world’s outcome. China holding one fifth the population of the world is quite mind boggling. With that many people to put into cars and fuel them would strip the resources of the world in a real short amount of time. This would also raise the price of everything putting the third world countries deeper into poverty and putting strain on the economies of the world. It will be interesting to see what is going to happen in this lifetime. Maybe it will happen in December of 2012.
