Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject: Climate change adviser attacks US stance
Climate change adviser attacks US stance
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In his second day as the foreign secretary's special representative for climate change, John Ashton, who has worked as both a diplomat and an environmentalist, set out his agenda for bolstering the government's efforts to convince other nations to sign up to a new climate change treaty and adopt cleaner technology.
But, speaking to journalists in London, he made clear his exasperation with the US's rejection of the Kyoto protocol. "The policy of the Bush administration on climate change has not been helpful on the international effort," he said.
Mr Ashton said the big choice facing the world was whether high carbon technology or low carbon technology would be beneficiary of the $16,000bn-$18,000bn the International Energy Agency had estimated would be spent on energy infrastructure between now and 2030.
A crucial question was whether China would use new technologies to limit or eliminate carbon emissions from coal-powered stations. The country was building a large coal-fired power station every four days. He added that attitudes in the US Senate were moving towards a climate change treaty.
FT _________________ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells.
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