How many times have you heard a politician say that the nation simply cannot afford to take action on climate change because it would hurt the U.S. economy?
China Will Hit Its Targets, Will the U.S.?
China is the number-one source of greenhouse gases. But Washington Post China Bureau Chief Simon Denyer recently wrote: “There is a growing sense that a fundamental change is taking place, because of an aggressive shift into cleaner fuels, slower economic growth that has hit heavy industry hardest, and a conscious transition away from high-polluting industries that used a lot of coal and electricity.”