China media downplays UN climate change report

[ohio2007]

Hiding behind their population numbers gives them strength in their argument ?
"leading coal user,developing country,per capita emmissions not bad...." ?
Until some auto industry has a breakthrough in engine technology that the Chinese will duplicate,denial remains a river in China.


China media downplays UN climate change report

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China Central Television in its Friday night and Saturday news broadcasts failed to mention the report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) that called for international action to slow down global warming.

No Chinese language report was seen on China's growing impact on global warming due to its world-leading coal use and its booming automobile industry.

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The Communist Party's leading People's Daily ran a three paragraph factual on the report at the bottom of page three in its Saturday edition.Other state-run papers ran Xinhua news agency articles on the climate report on inside pages, while only the Beijing News carried a story on the negative effects that climate change could bring to China, including extended drought in the north and worse flooding in the south.No Chinese language report was seen on China's growing impact on global warming due to its world-leading coal use and its booming automobile industry.

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China, a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, is not committed to cut greenhouse gases due to its status as a developing country. Despite being the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter after the United States, China's per-capita emissions remain only a fraction of those in developed countries, the government has said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070203/wl_afp/unclimatechina

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Well, the Chinese have an absolutely awful pollution problem.

Almost all of their water is completely contaminated - all do to factories with no pollution control.

Millions of people there are drinking contaminated water.

[ohio2007]

2. They plan to shut down sulfur belching factories for hundreds of miles

so as to present a false face to the world during the Olympics.


No reason China should get a free pass when they flood our shores with cheap imitations at Wal-Mart

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0310-05.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/24/china.city/index.html

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=3264

http://www.probeinternational.org/tgp/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=10218

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/13/bloomberg/sxpollute.php

[TheWraith]

13. China's on their way to a catastrophe.

Massive overpopulation, massive polution, an economy based on being the slave labor for the western world, and what amounts to a near police-state government trying to keep a handle on the whole thing. It'll be a race to see whether they have a war or an ecological disaster first.

[candice]

3. And most of our goods are manufactured there now so we share the blame

in the pollution that makes it way to our West Coast... Too bad so much of the stuff is junk no one really needs, just like so much of the items in most grocery stores are not real food.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I really try to not buy anything Chinese - their human and animal

rights violations are horrendous.

[ohio2007]

5. Everything is made in China, check your keyboard

What are the odds everything you purchase come from the Pacific rim?
We stop buying...they go under.

[Hoping4Change]

6. Would a boycott of Beijing Olympics get attention of Chinese officials?

Saturday Globe and Mail has a very interesting story about Linfen, the world's most polluted city.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070203.wclimatechina03/BNStory/ClimateChange/home

[ohio2007]

7. Jimmy Carter did that to punish Moscow

And the Soviets returned the "favor" in Los Angeles.

[Hoping4Change]

8. Good point however what if the boycott were at a grassroots level

aimed at discouraging potential spectators from attending?

[ohio2007]

9. If you build it, they will come

The Chinese leadership will not allow the world to become discouraged and stay away. Price is no object when you control the total economy. The Chinese will entice the outsiders and simply "give away" hotel space, admit all foreigners free of charge to all events and never allow TV network execs to be uncomfortable in any way .

[Hoping4Change]

10. Again good points but at least a boycott would cost them. In some

ways the outcome of any boycott is not as important as is the lead up to it.

[ohio2007]

11. China is making some people wake up in Africa but, they have little market share

Thanks China, now go home: buy-up of Zambia revives old colonial fears


Backlash as cheap Chinese labour and products follow investment from Beijing

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Beijing put up the money to build Zambia China Mulungushi Textiles and provided the expertise to run it. It grew to become the biggest textile mill in the country, manufacturing 17m metres of fabric a year and 100,000 pieces of clothing, and winning international awards for the quality of its cloth. The mill employed more than 1,000 people, propped up the economy of Kabwe in northern Zambia and kept thousands of cotton growers in business.

But last month the factory shut down production, strangled by a new wave of Chinese interest across Africa that some critics say amounts to little more than another round of foreign plunder, as Beijing extracts minerals and other natural resources at knock-down prices while battering the continent's economies with a flood of subsidized goods and surplus labour.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2005902,00.html

The Big Red machine is becomming a hyper economy

[Hoping4Change]

12. What an interesting article. Thanks for the link.

"Workers at Zambia's struggling copper mines cheered when Chinese companies bought them up, but the relationship soured as miners grew resentful over what they said were harsher and less safe working conditions for lower pay than in the many other foreign-owned mines.

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"Chinese people can stand very hard work. This is a cultural difference. Chinese people work until they finish and then rest. Here they are like the British, they work according to a plan. They have tea breaks and a lot of days off. For our construction company that means it costs a lot more," he said."