
Originally Posted by
Winston001
I don't have any links but have often read news items over the past year about how seriously China takes pollution and climate change. As a nation they have huge problems and can't change their industrial economy quickly but they certainly aren't ignoring these issues.
Beyond that, third world economies can't afford to grasp the anti-pollution nettle - it would kill their improving standards of living. Furthermore they quite reasonably say that the West has an affluent lifestyle because of 150 years of resource use - and dumping of the rubbish. Now its everyone elses turn to improve while we (the West) bear the burden of the cleanup.
I wasn't really talking about the third world (although that's kind of the reaction I expected, when I wrote "non-English speaking". I meant most of the European Union, for example. Bear in mind I am actually talking about personal experience, not hard data. My whole extended family is involved in scientific research or is university educated in "hard science" fields, and as far as I'm aware, no-one we know takes AGW seriously.
As for China... I have read the same things in New Zealand an UK media, but I have about as much faith in those as I have in the Chinese Communist Party.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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