watson
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I made a criticism of the trans-Pacific deals that encouraged the Chinese government to destroy it's environment and increase Global Warming. I'm not pinning the greed on any one country here, and that should have been clear in my previous post.You could buy a solar panel from China rather than a VCR. Or a hybrid car. Or a composting toilet.
Your consumer's choice did it, not trade deals.
Australians choose to eat extremely high quantities of meat that release 30x as much carbon as most asian diets, to drive rather than use public transport, to mine heavy metals with little environmental protection. Australians choose to spend their paycheque on drugs and alcohol and ARL rather than investing in the environment.
China's public health campaigns and environmental awareness is already leagues better than Australia's. Not saying they're great or anything, but it is extremely rich for an Australian to focus his environmental and consumer concerns on China, and moreover to use this a critique of globalisation.
Fact is, the American government for the past 30 years had left the health of our planet in the hands of 60 or so multi-nationals and a totalitarian state in search of regional hegemony. That is a recipe for disaster if I saw one, and a direct result of uncontrolled and unfettered Globalisation.