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Thursday, December 02, 2004
A Random Observation
...about China.
I have nothing better to do this morning than reflect on how many of my posts begin with the words "I have nothing better to do..." Also, I'm flipping through a 2001 edition of The Nystrom Desk Atlas, and I'm stuck on the graphic showing how many bicycles and automobilies are in use in China. Now, I don't have a scanner, so I can't put the graphic itself up, but here's a picture of an activist in Hong Kong dressed as a condom yesterday, as part of World Aids Day:
The graphic in the desk atlas says that there are 369.2 million bicycles in use in China and only 1.4 million cars. Even assuming that in the past three years, the number of cars being used in China has quadrupled, there are still sixty-five bikes in China for every car. Of course, not many people in China can afford a car, and if they could, China would be just as much of an oil junky as America, but it's plesant to contemplate the possibility of people getting off their butts and hitting the pedals.
More pictures from World Aids Day:
I have nothing better to do this morning than reflect on how many of my posts begin with the words "I have nothing better to do..." Also, I'm flipping through a 2001 edition of The Nystrom Desk Atlas, and I'm stuck on the graphic showing how many bicycles and automobilies are in use in China. Now, I don't have a scanner, so I can't put the graphic itself up, but here's a picture of an activist in Hong Kong dressed as a condom yesterday, as part of World Aids Day:
The graphic in the desk atlas says that there are 369.2 million bicycles in use in China and only 1.4 million cars. Even assuming that in the past three years, the number of cars being used in China has quadrupled, there are still sixty-five bikes in China for every car. Of course, not many people in China can afford a car, and if they could, China would be just as much of an oil junky as America, but it's plesant to contemplate the possibility of people getting off their butts and hitting the pedals.
More pictures from World Aids Day:
