Saturday, June 28, 2008

Global warming: it's complicated

As Rich Lowry reminded us yesterday:

"...there's China. It has passed the U.S. as the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide, and it accounted for two-thirds of the increase in the world's emissions in 2007. Global action against global warming makes little sense without China taking part, and it won't. If we can't get China to quit jailing dissidents and arming a genocidal Sudan, what hope is there of getting it to stop something -- rapid economic development -- that's otherwise unobjectionable? With hundreds of millions of Chinese people living in abject poverty, the country's economic growth is one of the world's most important initiatives against human misery."

And yet many in the environmentalist movement single out the United States for criticism when it comes to global warming. Such foolishness.