tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post293958620858825241..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: If We Want Solutions We'll Have to Pay For ThemThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76590688189470532762017-12-19T18:41:11.055-08:002017-12-19T18:41:11.055-08:00China plans to start reducing GHG emissions in 203...China plans to start reducing GHG emissions in 2030. (This absurd announcement was actually heralded in the Fake News.) Western nations are pretending to lower their emissions by offloading them to China. It's a GHG shell-game that makes dangerously wealthy and powerful oligarchs more wealthy, powerful and dangerous.<br /><br />Junior is trying to strike a free trade deal with China (which is about as 'far right' as it gets) so they can fuel Western manufacturing plants on Albertan bitumen. <br /><br />I'm sure the Mound will enjoy the fleet of bitumen tankers stinking up BC's serene coastal waterways. (On the plus side: they could kill the view and help ameliorate the outrageous real estate prices - another gift from our soon-to-be Chinese overlords. - Not that I have anything against Chinese people. Just not all that enamored on actual fascist dictatorships.) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-90157034242074201402017-12-19T15:01:04.816-08:002017-12-19T15:01:04.816-08:00Most people probably understand that solutions req...Most people probably understand that solutions require lots of money. The problem is that those with the most money are least likely to pay their share. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-87097216595998182892017-12-19T14:07:41.101-08:002017-12-19T14:07:41.101-08:00That's true enough but remember that China isn...<br />That's true enough but remember that China isn't acting out of altruism. It is perhaps less concerned with its GHG emissions in the context of climate change than as a factor in the respiratory health of its citizens. The Boys in Beijing have, for a long time, been alive to the threat that smog, soil contamination and water pollution pose to the stability of the central government. A complicating issue is that regional and municipal governments, more readily corrupted, sometimes drag their heels or simply ignore clean up mandates from Beijing.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-69473897224083394352017-12-19T12:51:25.722-08:002017-12-19T12:51:25.722-08:00China is doing something about their pollution; mo...China is doing something about their pollution; more so than we are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com