Late last month, Joe Biden’s very special climate envoy John Kerry explained that even though the Chinese government is engaged in the internment and systematic genocide of Uyghur Muslims — not to mention all the other horrible things they’re engaged in — it’s important to put our differences aside and work with them on an issue as important and pressing as climate change.
John Kerry on U.S. & China: "We have differences on economic rules, on cyber. We have other differences on human rights, geostrategic interests, but those differences do not have to get in the way of something that is as critical as dealing with climate."https://t.co/8xqB9B7bLq pic.twitter.com/dfXZh8g9ka
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 27, 2021
Apparently climate change just isn’t as critical an issue to China as John Kerry thought it was:
China topped US & all OECD countries combined in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, study says. India edged past 27 EU countries combinedhttps://t.co/dAeDViXHXM
— Steven Mufson (@StevenMufson) May 6, 2021
"China’s emissions … [were] more than triple 1990 levels and a 25 percent increase over the past decade." ($) https://t.co/8V5sZTAd0s https://t.co/ycJ41xFDlC
— David Williams (@ddub_news) May 6, 2021
Kerry and anyone who, like him, was naïve and mind-numblingly stupid enough to believe that the Chinese government is even remotely serious about reducing their carbon footprint and pollution in general, should be publicly humiliated. That’s certainly what China is doing to climate crusaders right now.
John Kerry: it's ok that china is putting the Uyghurs through genocide, they're fighting climate change
China fighting climate change: pic.twitter.com/flGgIGWacG
— Ahmed Al Asliken (@assliken) May 6, 2021
China’s eating our lunch, while we’re … well, this is where we’re at:
Make sure to eat your bugs, though. https://t.co/2cZUZUTXQw pic.twitter.com/mwGs8IfEJo
— Noam "MF Blum" (@neontaster) May 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/menendez_lexi/status/1390299845999710208
Obviously there’s nothing inherently wrong with caring about our environment and wanting to consume responsibly. But expecting Americans to change the way they live so that China can continue to not abide by so-called “climate agreements” is a great strategy for pissing more Americans off and empowering China in the process.
