Save and Conserve

It's official. China is now pumping more CO2 into the air than we in the US are.

This is an enormous problem. Even if the people & government of the US got religion on global warming & started to cap and/or reduce carbon emissions, it wouldn't matter. China is now the 500 pound guerilla pounding the Earth like it's an American Tourister suitcase.

And we can't really ask China to stop, either:

The world's carbon dioxide emissions increased 3% in 2007, and China was responsible for fully two thirds of that increase, according to the report. It now emits 14% more than the United States every year, and that figure is expected to grow as the country continues to burn coal, clear forests and make cement to fuel its own economic boom, while manufacturing the world's disposable goods.

The more you learn about the climate crisis, the more you realize it's more about economic growth & population than anything else. You can't expect to radically reduce the CO2 emissions if you still want people to drive, to be mobile, to eat, to go to school, to live. Plus, it becomes even harder if the number of those people who want to do those things keeps increasing. It's like trying to plug the ever-lengthening cracks in a failing dam.

The scale of the problem exceeds any one country's ability to cope effectively with it. This is a global shitstorm ... one without any simple or quick fix that has been made much more difficult to deal with now that Chinese economic growth has "gone plaid".