Missoulian: We're no longer the biggest consumers

China isn't letting stereotypes get in its way.

SUMMARY: It's getting harder to decry consumerism as example of capitalistic excess. Some of our more earnest environmentalist friends and zealous social-justice crusader pals are going to have to think up a new complaint. Their old lament about the United States' hogging all the world's resources is due for a little revision...

...Anyway, there's something almost humorous about having the country whose consumerism and resource consumption supposedly proves the evils of capitalism and greed out-consumed by a communist country...