China's state-owned Global Times on wednesday Eagerly was popular A report by two think tanks concerned about climate change, the British Commonwealth and the American Climate and Communities Project, found that the British and US military has issued 1110 He claimed that he was “owed” billions of dollars in “climate compensation.” emissions.
of Global Times is an agency of the Chinese government, worst polluter and carbon emitter But China's emissions naturally fall short, given the focus on “social cost of carbon” calculations carried out by two think tanks to denounce the “harmful legacies of war” propagated by its Western rivals. I couldn't touch it.
“The U.S. military is prioritizing perceived strategic interests over evidence of ecological impacts. Nevertheless, the military is still trying to find solutions to the climate crisis, even if the opposite is true.” US-backed conflicts are a source of insecurity, violence, and instability that further exacerbate the effects of the climate crisis, while the military itself is a major cause of ecological damage. The report's co-author Kem Rogali told Global. In a recent interview.
Another author, Patrick Biggar, argued that “it would be foolish to waste our dwindling carbon budget on war” by engaging in further conflicts. The two authors called for a reduction in military activity around the world and a reduction in U.S. and British military bases.
The US and UK governments and militaries are important architects of the modern fossil fuel economy, research has found. Since the 2015 UN Paris climate agreement, the two militaries have produced at least 430 million tons of carbon dioxide. In 2017 alone, the Pentagon had more emissions than Portugal.
The climate change movement has always been moderate toward China. One reason for this is that China knows it will never tolerate activists interfering with its industrial or military policies, and the same goes for its military “carbon footprint.”
China is working on the biggest and fastest development army accumulation Throughout human history, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) doesn't spend much time worrying about its carbon footprint. China is working to expand its military bases overseas, including island fortifications in the South China Sea that have proven unmitigated. environment disaster.
of Global Times He combed through every suspicion and conspiracy theory he could find about the U.S. military's environmental destruction, and even found a way to complain about the “military use of AI technology” to raise concerns about “massive water use.” China is no slouch when it comes to militarizing AI. agenda China is expected to become the world's leading AI powerhouse by the end of the decade, but those concerned about climate change don't seem to be too worried about how much water China's robots are drinking. .
Government-promoted “climate compensation” demands Global Times It reverts to claims of “historic” responsibility for the United States and Britain, that they started the industrial revolution and therefore bear a highly disproportionate share of the burden for emissions reductions, while China ' treated as an innocent developing economy.'
In fact, China is building more carbon-emitting coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined, and its only real competition on pollution is India, an ambitious leader in the Global South movement. is. India, like China, isn't it To give permission Climate activists have interfered in its industrial policy, and the BRICS economic bloc, co-founded by India and China, said We are not willing to make huge sacrifices for climate change.
