Posted on 06/20/2007 11:56:26 AM PDT by chessplayer
"China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said."
"He said there was no point blaming China for rising global CO2 emissions."
"He pointed out that much of China's emissions growth was being driven by consumers in the West buying Chinese goods, and noted that China's emissions per person were still well below those of rich nations."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Its ok for communists to polute. Its not ok for capitalists to polute.
Is it the West or just human beings and their needs in general?
It’s Bush’s Fault! /sarcasm
Well I guess China better stop selling to us evil Americans.
Alaska’s carbon emissions per capita are well above average for the USA. Alaskans: doing work Chinese won’t do.
The socialists who work for BBC have taken China as their new model. As they did with the Soviet Union, they will attempt to blame all Chinese excesses on the West.
"He pointed out that much of China's emissions growth was being driven by consumers in the West buying Chinese goods,"
That's easy to fix, put high tariff's on Chinese stuff and just quit buying it.
Emission's problem solved.
The title is misleading - it’s not the BBC blaming the west for China’s CO2, it’s a ‘climate change official’.
That's because the original title is: "China building more power plants"
Maybe they should use a statistic that's more relevant than emissions per capita, since China has population over 1 BILLION. How about emissions per square mile or square kilometer.
Very clever. The media ivory towers are tweaking their methods since the G8 where Pres. Bush included China in negotiations.
China has over 1 billion people so if calculated per person they will "lag" behind the rich nations for years.
Per capita? What a laugh.
Amazing that communist China gets a pass on this when they have absolutely no standards whatsoever. /scratching head
LMAO. China's EVERYTHING per person is well below those of rich nations because China has eleventyseven billion people, you idiot.
You knew this was coming.
It was never O.K. for the United States “pollution” factors to be the result of it being the economic engine of the world economy, but if that engine is to switch to China, then a rationale must be produced to keep the blame on the U.S.
Of course, if the U.S. agreed to that prescription and greatly reduced what China could export here, then the same elites at the BBC would blame the U.S. for depreciating the economic growth of China. The BBC will always have it both ways, in the negative, with respect to the U.S.
Like most of the U.S. media the BBC is a political-agenda-machine masquerading as “journalism”.
OK all gather hands and lets boycott any and all goods from China. See who they blame then.
I don't think it's being downplayed as it is putting it into proper perspective.
The reality is, the rich nations, produce significantly more CO2 on a per capita basis than the developing nation. That always needs to be kept in mind. People throughout the world ought to be allowed to increase their energy consumption for a better standard of living, even if it means equaling the output of the rich nations on a per capital basis. Unless of course, the rich nations are willing to lower their energy consumption thereby lowering the CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.
Developing nations, on the other hand, such as China, produce more CO2 per unit of energy produced (CO2 per unit of BTU) because they are relatively poor nation that rely more heavily on coal.
China needs to be pressured to make their country greener (reducing the CO2 emission per BTU produced), while at the same time be allowed the same level of total CO2 emissions as the US on a per capita basis.
The rich nations need to spend the resources to pioneer greener energy sources. The poor nations need to quickly follow suite thereafter.
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