Study: China Emits More Pollution in 16 Days Than Close Western Country Does in 1 Year

Western Journal ^ | 03/07/2021 | Grant Atkinson

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Environmentalists across the world have been urging countries to drastically reduce carbon emissions in an effort to combat climate change. During this process, they have effectively ignored the country that is most responsible for these emissions.

A Feb. 24 article from the Institute of Public Affairs cited research in which the organization compared China’s carbon emissions to those of its neighbor to the south, Australia.

The findings are distressing.

“Every 16 days China emits more carbon than Australia does in an entire year,” the institute reported. “This means the annual effect on global emissions from Australia mandating a net zero emissions target would be cancelled out by China in just over two weeks.”

The IPA added that China has increased carbon emissions by 83.5 percent per capita since 2004, while Australia has decreased emissions by 15.4 percent in the same time frame.

The so-called “net zero emissions” target has been a talking point for proponents of the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change that was adopted by 196 parties in the French capital in 2015 and went into effect the following year.

The agreement is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Many countries have set a specific date when they plan to reach the goal of net-zero emissions. For example, the United Kingdom and Japan are aiming to reach that goal by 2050, while China has a target of 2060, according to BBC News.

The problem is that while China says it wants to reach that goal, the country hasn’t taken many practical steps to get there.

“The analysis also shows that China operates 57 coal-fired power stations for each one currently operating in Australia,” the Institute of Public Affairs said.

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Glad to do it.

We should all be mighty thankful we live in a time when the climate is relatively nice and quite stable. The past has left a clear record (not a computer model) that shows just how bad it could be.