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From: Edward Britton
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Subject: China Brings Up the Elephant. . .
. . .As in that GREAT, BIG-ASS pachyderm crouching dead-center of the
enviroligion 'Climate Change.' Everybody KNOWS what I'm talking about,
but thus far China appears to have been THE national entity appointed
the task of spilling the official beans. China has 'fessed up' to what
few had the courage to admit heretofore: 'global warming,' and/or pretty
much everything else relating to how we interact with each other and our
environs, is about population control. Yep, that's right. Good old
fashioned herd management in that great Hitlerian tradition.
FINALLY, someone dares bring the issues UNDERLYING a New World, dystopic
Order (under a control freak elite quite possibly/literally from hell)
to the forefront. FINALLY, someone dares to address the REAL, grisly
business behind ceaseless bouts of hand-wringing on the part of
(putatively) 'well-meaning' leftists the world over. NOW, we can get
down to the numbers; who lives, who dies, who's allowed to be born,
who's not, who's allowed to eat, AND in what amounts, who's allowed to
have health 'care' . . . and OH, YES, who gets to decide for the rest of
us Negroes that have the unmitigated GALL to emit CO^2 on da
gover-business plantation.
Lest I forget, though, honorable mention is due our quaint neighbors to
the north. Seems a smattering of them have let their testicles descend
on the subject as well.
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2314438
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Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-12/10/content_9151129.htm
Population control called key to deal
By Li Xing (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-12-10 07:37
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COPENHAGEN: Population and climate change are intertwined but the
population issue has remained a blind spot when countries discuss ways
to mitigate climate change and slow down global warming, according to
Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning
Commission of China (NPFPC) .
"Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission
reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic,
social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits
right into the picture," said Zhao, who is a member of the Chinese
government delegation.
Many studies link population growth with emissions and the effect of
climate change.
"Calculations of the contribution of population growth to emissions
growth globally produce a consistent finding that most of past
population growth has been responsible for between 40 per cent and 60
percent of emissions growth," so stated by the 2009 State of World
Population, released earlier by the UN Population Fund.
Although China's family planning policy has received criticism over the
past three decades, Zhao said that China's population program has made a
great historic contribution to the well-being of society.
As a result of the family planning policy, China has seen 400 million
fewer births, which has resulted in 18 million fewer tons of CO2
emissions a year, Zhao said.
The UN report projected that if the global population would remain 8
billion by the year 2050 instead of a little more than 9 billion
according to medium-growth scenario, "it might result in 1 billion to 2
billion fewer tons of carbon emissions".
Meanwhile, she said studies have also shown that family planning
programs are more efficient in helping cut emissions, citing research by
Thomas Wire of London School of Economics that states: "Each $7 spent on
basic family planning would reduce CO2 emissions by more than one ton"
whereas it would cost $13 for reduced deforestation, $24 to use wind
technology, $51 for solar power, $93 for introducing hybrid cars and
$131 electric vehicles.
She admitted that China's population program is not without
consequences, as the country is entering the aging society fast and
facing the problem of gender imbalance.
"I'm not saying that what we have done is 100 percent right, but I'm
sure we are going in the right direction and now 1.3 billion people have
benefited," she said.
She said some 85 percent of the Chinese women in reproductive age use
contraceptives, the highest rate in the world. This has been achieved
largely through education and improvement of people's lives, she said.
This holistic approach that integrates policy on population and
development, a strategy promoting sustainable development of population,
resources and environment should serve as a model for integrating
population programs into the framework of climate change adaptation, she
said.
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