[Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming‏

[Donovan Arnold]

This is all political Hogwash. 
 
China pollutes the world more than the US not because of its proportion of carbon emissions per person, but because it has made the unwise decision of having a population of 1.4 billion people. Having that many people will pollute the world and deplete it of its resources much more quickly than 300 million polluters in the US. 
 
What would the Earth rather have, a 100 people throw 10 lbs of trash into the ocean, or 700 people 5 lbs of trash. Per person doesn't matter, it matters how much trash because the Earth is a finite resource. It doesn't get bigger per person.  
 
Further, China produces about half the trash we throw out over here anyway. :P
 
Your Friend,
Donovan Arnold 

--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming‏
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:20 PM



http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127

Institute for Public Accuracy
980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

China, U.S. and Global Warming
 
SIMONE LOVERA
Based in Paraguay, Lovera is co-founder of the Global Forest Coalition. She said today: "The U.S. per capita carbon dioxide emissions are so much higher than China's emissions. In 2005, the U.S. was nearly 23.5 while China is 5.5 [tons of CO2 per person per year]. It's inappropriate for the U.S. to be demanding that China reduce emissions unless you somehow argue that the U.S. has a right to pollute the rest of the planet and China doesn't. China actually showed real leadership in the voluntary commitments it made at the UN General Assembly meeting in September. I understand Obama has to deal with the U.S. Senate, but U.S. officials are actually obstructing progress at the international climate negotiations. The Europeans have agreed to a 20 percent reduction -- the Scottish [government] agreed to 40 percent. The U.S. government is stopping these from being binding commitments. Meanwhile, studies are finding that 300,000 people are dying because of
 climate disruption; countries in the Pacific are on course to be under water."

Lovera will be at the Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to 19. 

See: "Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan think tank: Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe" 

Lovera is also reachable via Hallie Boas. 

Boas is coordinator of New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice Ecology Project and can connect media to individuals and groups working on global warming around the world.


For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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