It is true that if China goes ahead building coal plants, and supporting the building of coal plants elsewhere in the world, then any fight against climate change is lost.
The point is often made, why then aren’t environmentalists fighting China? Is this hypocrisy?
Well I’d have to say that most of what I know about China comes from the UN, Greenpeace or other Environmental NGOs, so I don’t know that people can say truthfully, that environmentalists are unconcerned about China or not fighting them in any way at all.
Most of the environmentalists I know are totally aware of the coal problem in both China and India. However, they tend to think that the only way we can influence the State in both of those countries is through example, so they would rather reinforce environmental concerns in the countries in which they live.
Also the countries in which they live,especially Australia and the US, can often seem to be trying to join the Chinese coal rush rather than counter it, and if that happens the environment is probably lost. So the idea is to fight were we might have influence.
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