UN climate chief: Communism is best to fight global warming
What a blisteringly stupid thing to say. It's not to say that the democratic west has had a spotless environmental record.... but to compare it to China? Really? Let's see what's going on in Beijing today....United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.
China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres.
“They actually want to breathe air that they don’t have to look at,” she said. “They’re not doing this because they want to save the planet. They’re doing it because it’s in their national interest.”
Oh yeah, they know how to do environmentalism in China... for sure. I'm not even going to bother highlighting the environmental atrocities that occurred under the Soviet brand of communism....Air pollution readings spiked across China's capital Beijing on Thursday, prompting residents to don air masks and offices and homes to put electric air purifiers on overdrive.
Commuters across Beijing found themselves cloaked in a thick, gray haze as air pollution monitors across the city registered readings over 20 times the recommended exposure levels suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Here's a link to the story from Bloomberg, in case people don't like the first source.
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