China doesn't give a stuff about global warming: thank God! :: James Delingpole
Modern China cares about as much about "anthropogenic global warming" as Chairman Mao did about providing his population with five-course steak dinners. AGW's only use, as far as the Chinese are concerned, is as an ingenious device to suck up money and power from the gullible west.
And this isn't meant to be an insult to the Chinese, by the way. I mean it wholly as a compliment to their far-sightedness, shrewdness and pragmatism. Over the last ten days, delegation after US delegation has gone to China in a vain bid to persuade its leadership to believe in - or at least pay lipservice to - the mythical beast they call ManBearPig.
How has China responded? Why, with exactly the mix of incredulity, scorn and cynicism you'd expect of a hungry, fast-industrialising nation whose priority is economic growth rather than, say, assuaging breast-beating liberal guilt about how we've sinned against Mother Gaia and must now flagellate ourselves for our sins with swingeing new eco taxes and punitive regulation.
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The Chinese people understand free market economics and Supply and Demand fundamentals:
If the crazy westerners believe in AGW and insist on electric cars, then China will produce millions of those and put all the "Energy Star" "IPCC certified"... stickers on them before they are shipped here.
If the West changes its mind and wants to buy heavy SUVs again and Hummers, then China will deliver millions of those, and dominate the market after U.S. car manufacturing has been taxed out of existence.
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