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No mention on all those human rights abuses in China, or that they use what is essentially slave labor, and child labor, to build all that green energy stuff

UN deputy chief praises China’s investment in tackling climate change, forging ‘new development pathway’

“The challenges are many and they are serious”, Amina Mohammed said, highlighting the plight of the planet.

“Almost all our indicators on the climate and ecological crises are pointing in the wrong direction.”

She praised China’s role in being an innovator and believer in the power of multilateralism to overcome challenges through collection action, pointing out that over half of the world’s new renewables are projected to be in China, both this year and next.

“This gives you a flavour of just how critical China is to tackling climate change and protecting nature”.

As one of the world’s largest economies and a major emitter of greenhouse gases as well as a major investor in renewables, she said China had an opportunity “to set the example of a new development pathway that decouples growth from emissions. One that ensures a renewable energy and climate-resilient future we strive for that is equitable, just and balanced.”

Good thing she didn’t take a long, fossil fueled flight to China to say this….oh, wait, she did. Anyhow, China is really just dumping all those solar panels and wind turbines in markets around the world, especially 3rd world nations to win their favor. And making lots of investments in those nations to woo them away from the US, Canada, Australia, and the EU. And Russia. It’s an economic scam for power and control and influence. China could care less about the climate cult.

Back in Beijing yesterday, the Deputy Secretary-General held meetings with Government officials, which included the Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, the Executive Vice Foreign Minister, the Minister of Environment, and China’s Special Envoy for Climate Change.

She outlined the benefits of financing and aligning China’s development objectives with the SDGs. Ms. Mohammed also expressed the urgent need for all leaders to embrace a just transition amid the climate crisis.

She further expressed the importance of an ambitious and action-oriented dialogue among leaders at the UN General Assembly in September at this crucial midpoint of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris climate accord.

This is all simply falling into China’s trap.

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I’ve been reliably told by Warmists that this is all about science, and has absolutely nothing to do with politics

Critical Psychology Needed to Combat Capitalism and Climate Change

In our current era of intensifying climate change, the fields of psychology and climate justice may seem an unlikely pairing. However, a new article in the Review of General Psychology argues that the two are deeply intertwined. Its authors contend that critical psychology — a branch of psychology that challenges mainstream, individual-focused approaches — could be instrumental in our fight against climate change.

In their paper, “Climate Justice, Capitalism, and the Political Role of the Psychological Professions,” Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo, Nick Malherbe, and Ashley van Niekerk, from the University of South Africa, offer an incisive critique of mainstream psychological approaches to climate change, arguing they risk perpetuating the very factors driving the crisis.

“There is overwhelming empirical evidence that climate change is a product of the capitalist mode of production,” they write, citing multiple sources. 

They assert that mainstream responses to the climate crisis, including those from the psychological professions, have largely failed to acknowledge these capitalist origins. They argue this blind spot contributes to an oversimplified and depoliticized understanding of climate change, focusing primarily on individual behavior and ‘responsible consumerism.’ This approach, they argue, inadvertently props up the very system causing the crisis. (snip)

The authors begin the paper by exposing the intimate links between capitalism and climate change, underlining capitalism’s role in exacerbating our global climate crisis. While empirical evidence affirms that climate change results from human activity, labeling this period as ‘the Anthropocene’ risks downplaying the real culprit: the capitalist mode of production. The authors stress that not all humans share equal blame; industries driven by capitalist interests disproportionately contribute to carbon emissions.

You get the point: Warmists tend to be far left wackos, more similar to Socialists/Communists (in practice. Theory is quite different) who hate capitalism (for Other People), and want the Government in full charge of economies. The exact main point of the Socialist theory in the Democracy Model (political science 101) is that the government is heavily involved in all matters economic, including owning the means of production. Of course, that theory also states low governmental involvement in citizen’s lives, which is why it’s on the left. These Warmists are really way to the Right, into the Authoritarian models.

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