China’s eco-warrior Xi Jinping keep building coal plants
As Zhejiang party chief 20 years ago he wrote a weekly newspaper column noted for denouncing ecological degradation, and for warning that China’s “energy-intensive and high-polluting” economic model was unsustainable.
The Himalayas and Tibet - Asia’s "water tower'" - are heating twice as fast as the global mean. A report by the China Meteorological Administration in August said glacier loss has already reached 15pc.
This is likely to accelerate and destabilize the great river systems that have fed China through history
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph 28 October 2021
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