Gas Thief Escapes on Tricycle

In the odd but true category, a story of gas theft in China... natural gas that is.

According to a new report by the Worldwatch Institute, China is now driving the consumption and production of almost everything, threatening to deplete the world's resources. "China is becoming the sucking force, taking raw materials from across the planet, because it alone doesn't have the resources it needs to sustain its growth," said Lisa Mastny, the project director of the new study.

China is in the middle of the largest rural migration in human history, with millions of its people leaving for mushrooming cities and it remains to be see what long-term effects the Chinese boom will have on the world's raw materials.