Commentary China’s coal burning and steel production are up. That means lots of emissions and more global warming. Limits on greenhouse gas emissions are the latest promise that Xi Jinping is breaking. He apparently cares more about China’s economic and military expansion, than he does about the future of this green planet we all share. That puts the rest of us in an uncomfortable position. Fight back, give up, or face climate catastrophe. Xi apparently thinks that Western environmental softies will blink before he does. He’s probably right. That means that China’s economy, and therefore its military power, will continue to skyrocket, while Americans, Europeans, and Japanese do the hard work to limit emissions, and therefore ensure that our democratic homelands are green when the Chinese tanks roll across and rip them up. Before then, we’ll try to bargain with China to decrease all emissions at roughly the same rate, …
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