Letters to the Editor
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As I sit here in my suburban heated home...
It's kinda hard to point fingers at the Chinese.
Thou shalt not do what we've already done.
We already have an enormous fossil-fuel-burning first world infrastructure, but you're not allowed to have yours because we got ours first.
Sorry, but that argument doesn't hold a whole lot of water, especially if one is speaking from the Chinese point of view.
The only thing that might cause any willingness on China's part to change their ways is if WE had wholesale willingness to change. If masses of Americans, all across the continent, started planting begonias in their cars, turning them into park benches, play structures, etc. What if we instituted electricity rationing... gasoline rationing, or JUST ONCE for one year spent more on bike lanes and public transit than we did on highways? What if? Then maybe, just maybe, we'd have a shred of an argument to tell the Chinese what not to do with their power plants.
Harumph.