As other countries are slamming their production brakes at the red light at the eco-traffic signal, Red China is good to go on the emission highway.
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal points out how China has not followed the ecological requirements or guidelines that have caused other countries to be pulled over. Chinese President Xi Jinping always promises a green future but fails to deliver. He counts on Western complicity to avoid citations.
How else can one explain how the rigid eco-police has not stopped the world’s largest emission-producing country? Indeed, China seems to have unlimited right of way.
China’s “Eco-crimes”
The list of China’s violations is long. Here are just a few examples.
In 2017, an estimated 1.24 million Chinese died of air pollution, but with minimal outcry from the eco-movement. These death numbers are no surprise, considering that China now releases 50 percent more carbon dioxide emissions than Europe, the United States of America, and Japan combined.
Another eco-disaster is the destruction of Asian waterways. To industrialize the country, China engaged in changing its rivers. Making reservoirs and altering the natural flow of rivers has caused major damage to water resources and harmed other Asian countries downstream. Much of China’s water is unpotable and cannot be used for agriculture.
China is committing yet worse “eco-crimes” by destroying delicate coral reef ecosystems. To control the South China Sea, China has built military installations and runways on top of 90 square miles of coral reefs. Yet there is no Western outcry.
Such immunity from punishment suggests a reason beyond ecological considerations. Indeed, the battle is ideological.
Green is the New Red
The answer is found in the Marxist ideology of China’s communist government. With the fall of the Iron Curtain, many leftists have said that green is the new red. Marxists apply their class struggle dialectics to new causes such as ecology, identity politics and LGBTQ activism. The players are different, but the goals are the same: the West must be destroyed, and a new eco-world disorder must be installed.
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As the late Natalie Grant Wraga, a recognized Soviet expert who advised the U.S. State Department on Soviet deception, wrote: “Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting communist values.”
In an essay written in 2018 about ecosocialism, the author states, “Environmentalists and socialists need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader ‘movement of movements’ seeking a Great Transition.” This great transition is the destruction of the West and the implantation of communist ideals throughout the world.
This essay tells of the great globalist, socialist, and ultimately communist society that will take place after this great transition, which will come from “ the collective experience of struggle.” This violent struggle will lead to a regime of total equality and freedom idealized by Marxists.
Thus, the eco-movement tolerates the Chinese eco-disasters because it shares the same philosophical and social goals, such as a leveled society without free markets, restraints and morals.
Will the Red Light Change to Green?
Western economies are idling from eco-laws and regulations, while China has always roared ahead despite its massive emission output.
The West needs to realize that the issue is not the health of the planet. The left seeks the destruction of the West and its socio-economic structures.
The West has waited at the red light long enough. It is time to hold China to the same traffic rules. A genuine concern for the planet must include condemning China’s disastrous ecological policies and taking reasonable measures to prevent more damage. The West needs the green light to advance on a level playing field with China. Any other policy is suicidal.
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