Comments on: China’s Renegade Provinces http://carbonnation.info/2007/07/25/chinas-renegade-provinces/ Seeking Hope Amidst the Climate Conundrum Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lorraine http://carbonnation.info/2007/07/25/chinas-renegade-provinces/#comment-14 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:43:28 +0000 http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/chinas-renegade-provinces/#comment-14 Too true, Jerry D. It’s hard to be “here” and look “there” without being self-righteous, if not outright complicit. Although just shining light on reality is a big step I think. Thanks, Peter!

]]> By: Jerry D. http://carbonnation.info/2007/07/25/chinas-renegade-provinces/#comment-11 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:35:19 +0000 http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/chinas-renegade-provinces/#comment-11 The environmental degradation is one of many effects of our greed and subsequent need to see everyone fit into the mold of the western industrial economic model. I don’t think anyone in the history of the world has figured out how to effectively govern huge masses of people (humanely) — we can only construct comforting illusions of control.

We need a radical re-think of how we value “things”, in order to drive the behaviours in the right way. As long as it is more profitable to produce and consume without a thought to the environment, than it is to do so with some sort of total-system accounting method, then why should things change?

“We” asked the Chinese to do things our way, and by golly, they are.

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