The irony of Green living

20 years ago China was among the poorest nations in the world. Everyone biked and walked, and everyone worried about saving energy.

20 years later China is still among the poorest nations in the world (per capita). Everyone still bikes, but now drives cars like landowners with donkeys, and no one knows how to worry about saving energy when there are other things at stake, such as the lack of drinking water, severe weather, etc etc.

Here comes a video that is brilliant in some ways, but also gives me nostalgic airs about living in poorer, simpler times when conservation was a natural aspect of survival, instead of a luxury concept for the developed world:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc3NDMzNjEy.html