UN climate chief: Communism is best to fight global warming

[Beskar]

oh lol, can somebody explain to her what smog is.

I thought Smog was another environment hoax?

Jesting aside, the statement is like saying "Nazi's were better at fighting crime than a Western Democracy". All those pesky human rights sure makes it more difficult at locking away those innocents.

[Fisherking]

This is hard to respond to on an intellectual level.

Obviously she is no deep thinker. Not at all a well considered opinion.

[Husar]

Maybe she just wants to get some attention.
So far her statement seems ridiculous but China hasn't been trying to improve their environmental record for a long time I think. It's possible that they manage to change quite a lot but whether they become better than a democracy where the people actually support efforts to reduce environmental impacts is questionable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany

Yeah, that's right, China is still planning to build a lot of NPPs.

As for the point of the Nazis or other dictators being better at fighting crime, well yes, they are. The question is whether that's worth the tradeoffs but on some isolated issues other forms of government may actually be better than a certain selection of democracies, then again they may also be worse than others.

[drone]

We all know the Soviets were great conservationists!