Change from a Climate Activist

Ma, Jun is an environmentalist in China and he thinks that trump should visit China for multiple reasons. When speaking with Trumps he said that he wants to reduce energy regulations, eliminate the carbon reducing Climate Action plan. On Friday the US senate confirmed Scott Pruitt will now be the head of the environmental protection agency. Ma believes that China could offer some lessons to the new US president.

 Taking a deeper look into China’s pollution is what Trump should be doing, it is obvious that as a result of this pollution something should happen. Nearly 60% of China’s ground water is polluted and more than four thousand people die a year from toxic air, and soil pollution could cost more than a trillion dollars to fix. Ma went to the outskirts of Beijing to see what the sky looked like before all this pollution was there. There he called it a “rare blue-sky”, thinking back he sooner later remembered how it used to be without all the major pollution. There is a stated owned company in China that wanted to expand production to 10 million tons a year, but the acrid haze that was over the city was a major embarrassment for the Olympic host. Multiple parties have tried to help address this problem but the government isn’t listening to what they are saying which later formed into a protest. People there mostly recognize the fact of the horrible pollution, “It was hard to ignore the choking smog enveloping China’s northeast.  

While Trump wants to implement an “American First”, he is focusing on untapped shale oil, and natural gas reserves, and clean oil. China later on announced that 360 $ billions of those investments are going to be used to create jobs and curb greenhouse gas emission. It’s a great opportunity to expand out even more. China has a unique role to play in curbing rising temperature. China may later on take force to lead in combating climate change. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/19/asia/china-environmental-leader/index.html