Friday, April 16, 2021

Climate Change: Jeffrey Sachs loses it over Newsnight framing of China's human rights record

 The full interview here, which starts at 6 minutes.




12 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Where is Jeffrey getting his bread buttered?

Allegations have been made.

Peter Pan said...

Why does he has a problem with the framing?

We have John Kerry declaring that Climate Change is a STANDALONE ISSUE.

So hold them to it.

Matt Franko said...

LOL you look up neoliberalism in the dictionary and this guys picture is there...

So when he helped impose it in post soviet Russia we hear he’s this big bad guy but now he’s helping China with it and he’s a genius...

This is the hypocrite insane left in a nutshell...

lastgreek said...

Matt, you keep framing these guys as either being on the left or right. Opportunists are found in either "direction."

There are many videos on youtube of Trump praising the Clintons, even H as SofS. But when he saw an opportunity to run as a Republican, he took it.

Peter Pan said...

Chinese dragon takes to the sky

Up, up and away... alongside John Kerry's private jet.

Ahmed Fares said...
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Ahmed Fares said...

Chinese dragon looking pretty good when compared to other countries on a per capita basis

Ahmed Fares said...

Also, this from the people who brought you the Kyoto Protocol.

Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno’s apartment overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power plant, part of a buildup of coal power that is unheard-of for an advanced economy.

It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.

“Why coal, why now?” said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home. “It’s the worst possible thing they could build.”

Together the 22 power plants would emit almost as much carbon dioxide annually as all the passenger cars sold each year in the United States. The construction stands in contrast with Japan’s effort to portray this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo as one of the greenest ever.


source: Japan Races to Build New Coal-Burning Power Plants, Despite the Climate Risks

Incidentally, I don't blame Japan from moving away from nuclear, but they could have used natural gas imports instead (roughly half the CO2 emissions).

Ahmed Fares said...

#PedalingPete

Pete Buttigieg wants you to believe he's saving energy as Secretary of Transportation.

The idea is to use a gas guzzling Suburban to drive within earshot of your destination, unload a bike and ride in like you came from home.

The theater never stops. #PedalingPete

Peter Pan said...

Energy consumption per capita is the metric that will save us, or kill us.

Tom Hickey said...

Energy consumption per capita is the metric that will save us, or kill us.

If the nukes or germs don't get us first.

Bucky Fuller held that a key fundamental of design science is do more will less, which guided naval architecture, aeronautics and then rocketry. But the lowest hanging fruit is conservation, although technological innovation is also needed to get the job done.

It's now a race with the fates in which (hu)mankind is hobbled by hysteresis, path-dependence and cognitive-affective bias that result in a low level of collective consciousness standing the way of cooperation when concerted action is needed.

Peter Pan said...

The race to devour the planet shows no sign of slowing down :(