China has deplorable pollution, this is a fact. Busses and rail aside.
The first world pays them to make cheap goods without regulation so that we can wash our hands and keep clean.
Changes nothing about carbon tax
China pollutes 3x less per person than US does, even taking into account the fact that they prodice our good. Their government actually takes climate change seriously and they invest more in clean technologies than we do.
Other have commented that you are wrong about how carbon tax works as well
This 'china the boogieman' and 'we will keep polluting untill china closes the last coal power plant' is the political fongerpointing of the lowerst sort.
Well, the US doesn't have 900 million peasants to dilute our numbers. Moreover, at 3:1, China is still a greater gross polluter, if you take the reporting from China at face value. From other data collected in China where there is 1. Profit 2. Political repercussion - the outputs always seem to match up with the government prescribed allowable limits....
Those arguments are assuming the carbon tax will work as it is on paper. I am assured by ever other treaty that China and other 3rd world countries will be granted exemption.
China is not even the point. It's the whole "Third World" status protectionism racket.
The entire program will not work unless the entire world plays by the same rules and adheres to the same standards. This will not happen
Get your head out of your rear, and stop complaining about farmers in 3rd world countries who 'will be granted exemption' so they can go from having 1 farting cow to 2 farting cows and actually afford a meal every day - they still produce less pollution in their lifetime than you do in a year.
I am sorry for being rude, but you are a total hypocrite, and untill you sort out your shit, no other country is interested in what you have to say.
I'm not complaining about farmers. You have based your entire position on assumptions that not everyone in the world agrees with.
Had you thought about that? Have you thought that there are significant reasons why some countries would gladly accept 'climate change'??
Your premise is that everyone is going to do this reduction in output and gladly yoke themselves with an individual accounting for their global expenditure. How utterly foolish.
The climate accords you so poignantly mentioned are attended by private jet riding elites that have NO intention of reducing their quality of life.
When you choose to step into the light of reality, I'll gladly meet you
Half of china;s pollution comes from producing shit that we consume. We outsourced out pollution, and then have the gull to complain about it.
You know where 99% of all electric busses are? In China. You know which country has more electrified rail than the rest of the world combined? China. You know which country has the highest percentage of it's population take high sspeed train isntead of flying? China.