It's hard to believe that China went from 88% extreme poverty in 1981 to 0.07% in 2015, but that's just a small part of the changes happening in the world's second-largest economy.
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"A large country with a nearly 1.4 billion population, China cannot achieve prosperity by asking for assistance and waiting. The only option is hard work," said a white paper https://t.co/uKGyiQj52d
I just dug up this clip from 1992...
Severn Cullis-Suzuki's speech to the UN in 1992 on climate change sounds an awful lot like Greta Thunberg's in 2019.
I cut the two together to show just how similar the language is: