Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the New York Times, China has to step in as the global climate champion because President Trump.
Trump Is Unwilling to Tackle Climate Change. China Must Step Up.
China can do more. The planet depends on it.
By Daniel K. Gardner
Professor Gardner is the author of “Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know.”
Dec. 10, 2018…
With the Trump administration unwilling to confront climate change, the world needs a more deeply committed China. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the present rate, by 2040, coastlines will be inundated, droughts and floods will intensify and food shortages will be widespread. So the world is facing an immense challenge, made much more difficult by an American president who believes coal, oil and gas are the fuels that will drive America’s return to greatness.
Fortunately, there is no climate change denier movement in China. Political leaders and scientific experts there agree that the planet is warming, that the warming is owing to human activity, that China is responsible for much of it, and that the country is already experiencing its effects, including glacier retreat in the Qinghai-Tibet region and drought in the Hai, Yellow and Huai river areas.
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For one, it [China] must stop financing and building coal-fired power plants around the world. China has made reducing coal production and consumption a high priority at home, but Chinese energy companies are behind more than 200 new coal-fired power plants around the world that are either planned or under construction. Fighting a “war on pollution” and calling for “building an ecological civilization” at home while promoting the use of dirty coal in less developed countries makes China look hypocritical, even colonial. Instead, Beijing can and should be exporting the renewable energy technology that it has been so aggressively developing. With this clean energy, underdeveloped countries could leapfrog the outworn development model that sacrifices environmental well-being for economic growth.
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We live in a world in which global mistrust of China is widespread, and with ample reason: the military buildup in the South China Sea, the mass internment of Uighurs, human rights abuses, the disregard for intellectual property rights and more. But that mistrust shouldn’t blind us to the reality that in fighting climate change, the nations of the world are on the same side. We should cheer China on whenever it takes steps to reduce carbon emissions — especially as the Trump administration sits by idly.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/opinion/china-trump-climate-change.html
Al Jazeera accuses China of holding a million Uighurs in brutal concentration camps.
War could break out at any moment in the South China Sea, thanks to China’s aggressive pursuit of absurd claims that they own the South China Sea.
The Chinese government has repeatedly demonstrated utter contempt for international norms, such as when they recently arrested the head of Interpol, possibly because he refused to issue international arrest warrants against Chinese dissidents.
But greens like Professor Gardner seem willing to overlook these provocations, abuses and crimes against humanity, if China provides a firm commitment to help reduce global CO2 emissions.
China is back to the warlord practices it employed for centuries (if it ever left them).
Challenge the warlord and, based on the level of offense, they would:
1) Kill you
2) kill you, your friends, and family
3) kill you, your friends and family, and your village and all of their friends and family. and the friends of your friends.
Now it’s “re-education” and who knows what else?
Okay, is there any movement in China other than the Communist Party?
Shall we go to the archives and remind ourselves what then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had to say about China in regards to Climate Change?
Here’s a hint – the first word is Rat and the second rhymes with Not Safe For Work.
In China Climate Deniers social credit score will go to zero and they cant go to college, find work, travel or obtain loans.
This will be coming soon here so get ready
China of course with little energy resources has a lot of interest in alternative energy and taxing countries with the most oil and gas reserves will be a boon to energy poor countries as those carbon taxes will be used to aid them in producing expensive clean energy. Denial of Climate Change is unpatriotic
Ozz has the ideal solution, get’em when they’re kiddies, when their minds are “malleable”. Much easier and cheaper than the “reeducation” camps of Siberia or the modern day Chinese Uyghur camps.
Oh and by the way, don’t let the EU/UN one world government crowd know about our success here in Ozz.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2015/05/climate-cult-kiddies-part-ii/
Fortunately, there is no need for a “climate change denier movement” in China because they don’t have rags like the NYT either.
“China’s aggressive pursuit of absurd claims that they own the South China Sea.”
Not quite true. China doesn’t claim it owns the entire sea. It claims that it owns a lot of the islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and the bits of water around those. Nor are the claims to those islands entirely absurd. They do have a case that sounds at least as legal as the cases of the other countries claiming the islands. (I am not a lawyer, so I cannot say whether it is good case or not.)
Of course, the area is of great strategic importance to China, so they are not going to withdraw just because some Americans get apoplexy over it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=uyghur+riots+2009&oq=uyghur+riots&aqs=chrome.
reality shows different pictures.