Globalization, Spirituality, and a Sustainable China

China has over 1.6 billion citizens. As a result of globalization, China is experiencing an unprecedented explosion of industrial and capitalistic modes of production. More of their people are being lifted out of poverty at a rate faster than at any other time in history. These important developments are also adding pressure to our current environmental crisis—reports are that pollution levels in China could more than quadruple in the next 15 years if China doesn't slow its energy consumption and automobile use. How can we enact healthy globalization efforts, pull people out of poverty, while curtailing the catastrophic impact rapid modernization has upon the environment? And how can Chinese spirituality survive this modernization, as well as the inevitable post-modernization that lies ahead?