D.C. Watch » China http://blog.getm.org The Official GETM.org Blog Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:11:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 China to become the World’s Biggest Polluter http://blog.getm.org/2007/05/01/china-to-become-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/ http://blog.getm.org/2007/05/01/china-to-become-the-worlds-biggest-polluter/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 21:54:18 +0000 Moderator http://blog.getm.org/?p=110 china pollution smoke stacksA report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that discusses climate economics is objected by the Chinese delegation fearing repercussions that could possible derail their drive to increase manufacturing and jobs creation. The draft, suggests various solutions to mitigate climate change, such as capturing and burying emissions from coal-fired power plants, shifting to renewable forms of energy and more use of nuclear power, which for China that relies heavily on coal could mean the beginning of economic slowdown.

This reminds me of a scene from “The Inconvenient Truth” where Gore points to a 90′s poster that has the earth on one scale of the balance and gold bullions on the other. China now gets the pick, and if any of them have at least half an ounce gray matter up there, they will chose a policy unlike that of our beloved Bush’s administration!

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