Posted on 05/28/2009 8:51:32 AM PDT by jakerobins
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Beijing on Thursday to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right.
Speaking at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University, Pelosi continued the theme of her five-day China trip — that combating global warming represented a new challenge that both governments must tackle jointly.
"We are all in this together," Pelosi told an audience of about 200 students and faculty who applauded enthusiastically throughout the 45-minute session. "The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."
Pelosi's trip has been notable for skirting human rights and the fierce public criticisms she has frequently leveled at the authoritarian government.
The trip comes as President Barack Obama's administration has emphasized climate change as a new area where the two governments can broaden already wide-ranging engagement. The two countries are the biggest emitters of the carbon gases that are causing warming temperatures. Both governments are staking out positions ahead of a meeting late this year in Copenhagen that will try to forge agreement on targets and steps to reduce carbon emissions.
In a meeting Wednesday, the head of China's national legislature, Wu Bangguo, told Pelosi that climate change was a common challenge and that Beijing stood ready to work with Washington.
Turning around her usual criticisms about human rights, Pelosi linked global warming to environmental justice, saying the right to a clean environment is also a human right.
"I do see this opportunity for climate change to be ... a game-changer," she said at Tsinghua. "It's a place where human rights — looking out for the needs of the poor in terms of climate change and healthy environment — are a human right."
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The Chi-Com’s are shocked at her trampling of civil rights...
I agree - I am absolutely astounded this rancid communist bitch actually said that. Even for Pelosi, it's so far over the line it deserves impeachment for itself alone. She is wildly out of control.
While she’s over there, have her ask if they ever found any of those 100+ people who were subpoened to testify about the Clinton’s fund raising that fled back to China before their court appearances.
| China, India, Brazil, the 3 biggest polluters in the world. Ask the Chinese if they give a damn about the precious “environment” or so called “global warming”, they’d laugh in your face or maybe jail or shoot you. The left is so concerned with trivia aren’t they? Meanwhile,....Western civilization is dying right in front of their eyes. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a particularly obnoxious critic of Beijing, skips town just after she smears the CIA, and is called out on her lies by her intellectual superior Dick Cheney. California is bankrupt, and Pelosi is in China worried about pollution when China owns most of our national debt and most likely a huge amount of California debt, if not California it self. America is bankrupt and China who is our biggest financial supporter is supposed to sit still and listen to Pelosi lecture them on their environment. |
Excellent points. Thank you.
The real Wicked Witch of the West!
Nice color....looks good on her!
Study Finds Even Climate ‘Alarmed’ Americans Don’t Want Cap-and-Trade
American Thinker | May 29, 2009 | Marc Sheppard
Posted on 05/28/2009 10:44:29 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260349/posts
My doggie is Nancy’s intellectual superior
LOL!
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