Give me your clean technology!

Here's an example of the zero-sum bias, from Thomas Friedman's column:

If we don’t get a serious energy bill out of this Congress, and Republicans retake the House and Senate, we may not have another shot until the next presidential term or until we get a “perfect storm” — a climate or energy crisis that is awful enough to finally end our debate on these issues but not so awful as to end the world. But, hey, by 2012, China should pretty much own the clean-tech industry and we’ll at least be able to get some good deals on electric cars.

Right. They will own clean-tech industry. Because the amount of clean technology is constant, and whoever lays their hands on it first will own it forever. There will be no clean technology left for anyone else.