Comments on: Myths and Climate Change http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/12/10/myths-and-climate-change/ Canadian Edition Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:56:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sam_S http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/12/10/myths-and-climate-change/#comment-21730 Sam_S Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:58:50 +0000 http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/12/10/myths-and-climate-change/#comment-21730 Wonderful piece. You know, albeit unintentionally, the US has managed to export most of its pollution through the mechanism of abandoning the manufacturing industry to poorer countries only to happy to have new factories. Pittsburgh was so blackened by the steel industry that you couldn't see the sky at noon. Then the US steel industry went essentially bust, and eventually China replaced it. But my firm belief is that the reason that climate change wrangling gets no one anywhere, is that the whole issue is framed as a massive scheme of wealth transfer, not a scientific pursuit of solutions. So of course it's got all the character of a Chinese fender-bender, with people standing in the road arguing, "YOu should pay!"...."No, I signaled that I was turning right from the left lane! YOu should pay!" But that's probably another thread. Wonderful piece. You know, albeit unintentionally, the US has managed to export most of its pollution through the mechanism of abandoning the manufacturing industry to poorer countries only to happy to have new factories. Pittsburgh was so blackened by the steel industry that you couldn’t see the sky at noon. Then the US steel industry went essentially bust, and eventually China replaced it.

But my firm belief is that the reason that climate change wrangling gets no one anywhere, is that the whole issue is framed as a massive scheme of wealth transfer, not a scientific pursuit of solutions. So of course it’s got all the character of a Chinese fender-bender, with people standing in the road arguing, “YOu should pay!”….”No, I signaled that I was turning right from the left lane! YOu should pay!” But that’s probably another thread.

]]> By: declan http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/12/10/myths-and-climate-change/#comment-20872 declan Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:03:52 +0000 http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/12/10/myths-and-climate-change/#comment-20872 A lot of people are rather deflated and passimistic towards politics. Not many citizens are confident enough about the current democracy in China. A lot of people are rather deflated and passimistic towards politics.
Not many citizens are confident enough about the current democracy in China.

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