What is china’s environmental position?
Environmental conditions in China are poor and getting worse. Its energy demands are
expanding exponentially, and the only way for it to keep up is fossil fuel energy
production. As a result, they are building thousands of coal fire power plants and
negotiating oil deals around the world.
There are some conservation efforts, but these efforts are limited by severe population
pressures–you can’t conserve a lot of land when you’ve got more than a billion mouths to
feed.
Lots of groups, including the PRC, monitor environmental conditions, but there isn’t a lot
anyone can do. This isn’t even really the Chinese govt’s fault. Chinese people have the
right to enjoy the same quality of life as anyone else. The problem is that there are so
many of them in a concentrated area that it produces massive amounts of pollution.