[lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already!

[Alan Rudy]

I haven't heard this argument from lefty environmentalists and I don't know
enough thoughtful(?) skeptics to have had conversations enough to be able to
generalize but I hear things like this quite often from my students: "While
its true we have to get our own house in order, its hard to convince any of
my friends - much less anyone in my family - that this is something we have
to do because the Chinese (and sometimes the Brazilians or Indians or... you
get the point) are being so irresponsible."  Then they'll say something
like: "I'm sure many folks in the US would agree to more regulation and more
changiness if they didn't think that such a development would encourage
irresponsible Chinese (or Brazilian or Indian or...) free-ridership.
Something needs to be done to - oh, sorry, I meant about - those guys."

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Now cousins, if this was just a one-off -- a singular example of a
> > blind spot -- I wouldn't mention it but it seems to be a popular
> > talking point on the left end of the dial.
>
> Can you point out some examples?
>
> I ask since I'm more accustomed to hearing about China's fault in this
> after, say, the "there's no warming" and then the "it's the sun"
> arguments -- sometimes in the same conversation.
>
>
> --
> Andy
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Alan P. Rudy
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