Weighty issue

Comments on Liu Shinan's column "Weighing the costs of luxury" (China Daily, July 18)

Excellent, simple commentary about modern-day waste. Hopefully, many people will stop and consider your points.

George

Via e-mail

Your concern can be rephrased in another way:

How to make the youth of China more productive by being innovative and inventive, not just to cater for the growing sophistication in consumer demands, but to resolve issues associated with social costs such as pollution?

Along the way and with a bit of luck some new phenomena will be discovered so as to herald a new age.

Thinkpositive

On China Daily website

Mr Liu's article concerning cell phones is right on. I think the dubious plot (forced/built in obsolescence) has been ongoing here in the USA for hundreds of years.

Bob Hampe

Via e-mail

The cost of progress needs to be taken into account, but who is to say its impact cannot be minimized through improved know-how over time.

As long as the expected benefits to society outweigh the total costs, it would be okay for consumers to continuously demand higher quality goods as well as services.

A netizen

On China Daily website

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