Should the West Work with China on Climate Change?

Should the West work with China on climate change? China is one of the biggest emitters of carbon in the world, but engaging with China on this front hasn't proven very productive. China is still building coal-fired power plants as it seeks to portray itself as a "developing nation" deserving of unequal treatment in climate accords. "We treat them like a liberal democracy when they're really just North Korea with better PR," says Unscripted's Shelley Zhang. If China is going to ignore the promises it makes anyways, is it worth engaging with? We discuss that and more in this episode of China Unscripted.

 
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[mrmelty]

“Just North K with better P.R” You nailed that lol

[maiyenish]

4:00 The trees planted in the desert lowered the ground water table, which translated into worse sand storms.

[TheAussief]

The Gold mining will most likely involve arsenic. And the Chinese aren’t know for their environmental concerns.

[Fiona_P_]

Loved loved Loved Shelly’s comment about “China being North Korea with better PR”. Right on the money ⚛️☮️🌏

[AceFuzzLord]

Working with the CCP on climate change is like working with a demolitions expert to renovate an ancient temple with extreme delicacy: always leads to disaster

[Kuy]

Xi Jipping should be the next evil emperor in The Star War movie.

[rfenn]

Look at the Paris accords. It didn't do anything to cut China's role on the issue and just focus on the U.S. I won't at least be bothered by the accords if we didn't give China the pass while we paid Billions to Europe.

[rdsyafriyar]

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today." - Mikhail Gorbachev

[bignck]

You can't work with lying thieves.

[liamhuckins]

We make less so they can make more. Next.

[DukeOfTwist]

Matt just gives us a full blown outrage please

[rybolov]

We did a lot of environmental bad like this in the US. We created a lot of dams for hydro power and built aqueducts to move water to places like LA. We had huge industrial pockets that put out a lot of pollution and that have mostly atrophied over the years like Detroit. This isn't unique to China.

[danieldjz]

What can we possibly do to stop climate change... like really.

[somethingsomething]

Anything they promise to do they will just lie about anyways

[soulwarriorvibe]

NO
and again i say...
NO
for a third time...
NO
lets make it four...
NO

[gutsikkyamo]

24 hours mining lithium and copper since 2001 in a place near Lhasa to provide battery supplies and the mining industries of copper and lithium getting much worse since clean Tesla electric powered car.

[silverdude]

What for? Waste of time. + they don't play EVER by the rules.

[fersuremaybek]

the real question is how are the going to backstab you if you work with them.

[editorrbr]

Here’s the problem with trying to work with China on their carbon admitting industries. The vast majority of it is going to come from construction, and that is wholly internal and is the only thing floating the economy… Which in turn is the only thing keeping the CCP in power.

Until China gets a sustainable economic model, I’m not sure we can even if we wanted to.

[madmax]

China: US is to blame
US: China is to blame
So NO