China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases in Attempt to Extort Billions as UNFCCC Me

reply to post by Dasher


I don't need to address it point by point as the points you make are not relevent nor accurate.

Start with this. China does not set the price point or the costs.

The designers of the product requested do...and guess who does the product development.

reply to post by TrueBrit

But China is stepping past all that, straight to what amounts to demanding money with menaces, and that is a damned outrage!

I agree.

Headline correction for accuracy.

China Threatens Mass Venting of Gas

Chinese food is good, but too much of it has consequences.

Pffffft

reply to post by peck420



Of course they can't set their price. They need us, right? Not so simply. We need each other, as is the case for nearly all of life's community, but the fact remains that "the manufacturer" is the judge as to whether or not their product is worth the price they ask. China rarely counts the cost wisely (so that they can build a tower/empire like the evil westerners), and now they are extorting the environmental cost from general welfare funds. This is either a mistake born out of greed that they are now trying to blame on Westerners or they specifically planned this as an attack on another's reputation.

While Westerners are commonly excessive consumers, this has nothing to do with the quantity of consumption, rather, it has to do with proper accounting. They sell themselves out like cheap whores (This is not to take away from the fact that they wear a true honor in being a productive nation, it is to emphasize the disparity occurring!). Conversely, if they valued their productivity properly, some other country would, sadly, take China's current role in the world. So then, we are all (westerners and eastern manufacturers) certainly at fault in a very specific way, and the general answer is for us all to be more moderate in our accounting (public business and personal business).

However, this still does not change that, in this case, Chinese policy is the fulcrum and weight which lifts this extortion into the world. "Our wants" don't "force their action". And, again, more so, the illusion of needing each other for economic survival is only premised on everyone building an empire (the tower). As individuals we can make this sort of thing impossible. But while it is, this particular Fail is in the hands of the manufacturers.