Comments on: China Set to Publish Climate Change Plan http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/05/31/china-set-to-publish-climate-change-plan/ Working with you to change the world. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:04:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Daharja http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/05/31/china-set-to-publish-climate-change-plan/#comment-1057 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:28:22 +0000 http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/05/31/china-set-to-publish-climate-change-plan/#comment-1057 Of course, we in the West can easily influence China's output of carbon - by boycotting cheap Chinese exports. Put simply, we are the cause of China's huge growth in carbon outputs. It is the developed world's greedy demand for cheap, disposable products that keeps China's factories humming and pouring out pollution. All we have to do to help China meet its targets is stop buying the cheap clothing, cheap plasticwares, cheap everything - and we don't need it all anyway! If we criticise China on its increase in CO2 emissions while continuing to buy Chinese goods by the shipping container load, we are nothing more than hypocrites of the worst sort. Of course, we in the West can easily influence China’s output of carbon - by boycotting cheap Chinese exports.

Put simply, we are the cause of China’s huge growth in carbon outputs. It is the developed world’s greedy demand for cheap, disposable products that keeps China’s factories humming and pouring out pollution.

All we have to do to help China meet its targets is stop buying the cheap clothing, cheap plasticwares, cheap everything - and we don’t need it all anyway!

If we criticise China on its increase in CO2 emissions while continuing to buy Chinese goods by the shipping container load, we are nothing more than hypocrites of the worst sort.

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