Neither are we in a position to complain about China and India. Combined they represent a huge...

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...fraction of the world's population. The issue is per capita consumption, not bulk consumption.

The United States produces almost as much waste and carbon dioxide for a little more than 300,000,000 people has China does for 1.5 billion.

Is this justice?

We built this wonderful economy that you are opposed to shuttering on coal. Now we are screwing every living thing on this planet and every human being after us by fracking gas and congratulating ourselves for doing so.

By what moral authority do we lecture the Chinese? I read pretty much every damned issues of Environmental Science and Technology.

The link is to the current issue. Why don't you count the number of papers written in this prestigious American environmental journal written by Chinese scientists.

You know that Chinese children have huge concentrations of PDBE flame retardants from "recycling" American electronic waste?

Many of these children have children with unconscionable levels of lead from "recycling" American electronic waste.

Chinese miners dig cadmium for our solar cells. Ethical or unethical?

Smug indifference to this reality doesn't satisfy me, any more than I am satisfied by putting children in cages at the American border, this being excused by the racists who organized this state of affairs, albeit to obscure naked racism, to "protect the American economy."

There are zero Chinese who are less human than I am.