Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: China keen on action in global efforts against climate change [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)I suppose that fabricating things works best when the world isn't going your way...
They started seeing the global possibilities around 2007, and they accomplished their first domestic renewable resource assessment in 2009. Since then they have made a radical change of direction where "they have been steadily scaling back or slowing down the classic approach and rolling their huge incoming cash flow into both positioning themselves for the coming global market in renewable technology and meeting their own needs with renewables."
The fact that their nuclear program was already rolling and that it possessed inertia for some additional growth doesn't negate my observations since the rate of planned new growth in the nuclear program had already slowed to a crawl before Fukushima. All of the new build you are pointing to had already been planned before they did their renewable resource assessment and there has been almost no additional expansion announced since.
My comments about the corrupt official were not as you allege. I pointed to that incident as proof of the FACT that nuclear is subject to the type of corruption that negates the claims by you and your cohorts that nuclear power is somehow exempt from the problems that plague other human endeavors. It was proof positive that the level of safety for nuclear plants was subject to compromise and couldn't possibly meet the level the nuclear industry has led the public to believe exists.
I'm sick of your lack of ethics, Baggins.