This is confusing. If someone accepts that the world is getting warmer due to human output of CO2, and if that person also accepts that global warmer would harm mankind then how could that person not accept making changes in behavior to prevent it. Isn't the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again but expect a different outcome? It is one thing to deny that global warming is happening due to humans and then not do anything but I cannot follow the logic of agreeing with it and then still do nothing.

This article describes exactly the above scenario. The Chinese government has accepted that climate change is real. They believe that it is caused by human activity. Their solution is to double the output of carbon dioxide???

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Sean O, Mason, Ohio

It appears to me that China is wanting to choose their economy over the earth.

Tiffany, Miami, Oklahoma

Anyone travelling through China becomes quickly aware of widespread contempt for the environment. By spectacularly inverting the most basic axioms of Marxism in the space of a few decades, the Chinese Communist Party has spawned the world's most ravenous dog-eat-dog society. Caught between two worlds, the Chinese lack a clear frame of reference. The Mao era is rightly castigated but the current social model has been invented in a climate of ignorance. Economic progress - on a personal and national level - is seen as the only salvation left for those whose ideals were deliberately put to sleep by the architects of reform. As economic development and political credibility for the CCP are synonymous, the coal will keep burning in China until it's too late and the whole of north China becomes desert.

Donald Smith, London, England

we should realize that China is making progress! Try not eat an elephant one time. Bit by bit!!

Harry, Tianjin,

hehe would The UK government abandon the industrial revolution?

guludu, shanghai , China

I'm sitting in my apartment in Central Hong Kong and i can't see across the harbour due to the haze, mist or whatever. It's recorded that in the '70s on average 4 days a month had low visibility, now only 4 days a month are considered to have decent visibility! Most people here think that it's in part due to the pollution produced on the Chinese border by Hong Kong owned factories, i wonder how many other factories with their own power plants are owned by weathly multinationals in China??? Surely it's time for these companies and the west to take responsibility and help China improve their technology and education as they are the ones benefitting greatly. Someone sell China some green technology, im sure you could get a handsome fee for it! Or go to China develop a green enterprise employ and sell it back to the west, be an example! This is probably just me being naive...

Nick, Hong Kong,

I believe for the moment that there is a policy of expansion in their economy, but it does not necesarily mean that they control all the variables. In its eagerness to show itself as a superpower, perhaps China is walking toward enormous problems. The question is, then, do they have some other way to be important and at the same problem avoid the problems that we foresee?

laudemar gonzalez (sr), toronto, canada

Every developed nation(U.K, Germany, France, U.S.) has emitted large quantities of emissions in their period of development. China is developing and should have the freedom to develop and not be hindered to a great extent. The world is aware of global warming and every country should do as much as it possibly can. Rather, than comparing their country's carbon emissions to others.

Vaughn, London, U.K.

Nathan - the article says that China's CO2 emissions are still lower than the US, and China's population is more than 4 times higher. Do the maths ;)

Bob Frost, Beijing, China

This article seems to put China in a bad light. Indeed it suggests to me that China is inconsiderate in its capacity as a global superpower to take responsibility for its carbon emissions. I recently heard on the radio that China is per capita or per head much lower in carbon emissions than other Western countries such as the United States and UK. Is this true? If so, should it not be included in the article to present a more well informed picture to the average reader?

Nathan, Cambridge, UK