“Odds are that China paid environmentalists to run interference”
I don’t think China needed to, the people pushing this crap are flat-out Communists on their own, and they control the Democrat Party. And don’t forget the Globalist money and especially Soros. China is probably trying to figure out how the country that was on the top of the world just a few decades ago could be so damn stupid.
The Soviets have noted that, if they can plant the seeds then the plants will self-maintain themselves. So, China, and the other oil nations that isn’t named Alberta, funded the environmental movement and it’s maintaining itself without further having to do anything.