China vows to stick to climate deal before Trump announcement

it seems china has learned its lesson after polluting their own cities to the point you can't even see more than a few meters ahead on bad days and even infants developing lung cancer

>>145671
Seriously. Buddy of mine lived there for 3 years. Every picture in every part of the country is smog. People need to wear masks or excersise indoors.

China is and will continue to be the prominent smog creator well into the future.

It's really heartening to hear that. China seems to have a serious lack of objective EPA. But this is an important step in its own development for exactly that reason. Even as a developing country, it needs to take both science and economic expert opinion seriously to counterbalanced economic growth in the immediate future with the sort of conditions they leave to successive generations of their people. I only wish the culture in our country were so meritocratic and respectful of education and intellectualism, and that we weren't a place where elitism were a dirty word. I'm sure fault is roundly shared by everyone for letting us get to this place.

Lip service. They're just taking advantage of Trump's hard regression on climate to make themselves, a country vilified for their approach to climate, look good.

Show me where it says they're cancelling all the indoor cities they now have 3D printers for.

>>145733
They've been shredding plans for coal-fired plants and have been investing in wind.

>>145733
copied from another thread, but

>China may be the overall number one polluter (accounting for about 30% of global pollution compared to the US's 15%), but the US still beats everyone in per capita pollution. If you calculate pollution per head, the US pollutes 16.5 metric tons per person, versus China at 7.2, EU at 6.8, and the global average at 5. That's why the rest of the world has been getting on the US's case, and why politicians here have been so recalcitrant in adopting any regulations. It would hurt us much more then other nations just because our infrastructure/economy is built with the above waste in mind.

If the US was closer to the average of other industrialized nations, it'd only account for around 6-7% of total pollution.

>>145760
We're also talking about a developing country that only industrialized this century. If fairness is one's dominant concern, our historic contribution makes an equitable agreement to proportionately reduce emissions more than fair.