> I would really love to see China clean up their act (the pollution has become by far my #1 dislike) Since no one has mentioned the Kuznets curve yet, the Env

> I would really love to see China clean up their act (the pollution has become by far my #1 dislike) Since no one has mentioned the Kuznets curve yet, the Environmental Kuznets Curve is a bell-shaped curve that posits that before a certain point, the environment is sacrificed for economic growth. After that inflection point where citizens demand better environmental stewardship, the environment improves. However, in China, the problem is that economic growth is how the ruling party maintains power. The break-even for political stability economic rate in China is said to be around 6-7%. Under that, the economy cannot sustain the migration of rural workers to urban centers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve