TY - JOUR
AU - Carliner, Geoffrey
AB - COMMENT The China Card: Global Warming? GEOFFREY CARLINER ifteen years ago, China began warming may pose a serious threat sions is costly for those countries Fa series of economic reforms to human well-being over the next that limit their consumption of fos­ that has led to unprecedented century and beyond, and that it is sil fuels, but the benefits of these growth in virtually all sectors of its caused in part by emissions of carb­ reductions are spread throughout economy. Since the early 1980s, the on dioxide (C02) that occur when income of the average Chinese fam­ fossil fuels are burned. If scientists In fifteen or twenty years, ily has more than doubled. Hun­ and political leaders conclude that dreds of millions of people have China will probably be the energy consumption must be lim­ raised themselves out of poverty, ited to reduce the risk of global world's largest economy. and even more hundreds of millions warming, then Chinese C02 emis­ It is high time that the now have a vastly improved stand­ sions may become a major source of United States and other ard of living. China's growth has contention. Just as Mexican pollu­ industrial countries duplicated or 
TI - Abroad
JF - Challenge
DO - 10.1080/05775132.1995.11471856
DA - 1995-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/abroad-DIRgm0b0M2
SP - 57
EP - 59
VL - 38
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -