奥巴马：10多亿中国人如果富裕起来会那将是人类的悲剧和灾难

choi

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It is said that the Chinese translation of Tudou.com is copied from Phoenix of Hong Kong.


My reply is as follows.

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Yawn.

(1) Here is the transcript of the interview with Kerry O'Brien.

Face to face with Obama. 7.30 Report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (
ABC), Apr. 14, 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2872726.htm

Quote:

"KERRY O’BRIEN: YOU’VE DESCRIBED NUCLEAR TERRORISM AS AMERICA’S GREATEST
RISK IN THE SHORT AND LONG TERM, BUT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALSO BEEN DESCRIBED
AS THE GREATEST SINGLE RISK TO HUMANITY. YOU MET CHINESE PRESIDENT HU ON
MONDAY. DID YOU TWO MAKE ANY PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, BECAUSE SURELY THE
SOLUTION IS LARGELY IN THE END IN YOUR HANDS AND HIS?

"PRESIDENT OBAMA:  * * * What I’ve been trying to say here in the United
States and I would say to the world is that if we focus our attention, our
ingenuity, our innovative capacity on transforming from a fossil fuel based
economy to a clean energy based economy then potentially we can not only
solve the problem of climate change but unleash an enormous amount of
economic growth for the future but it’s going to take some time, and there
’s going to be some transition and people are understandably resistant. It
is always difficult to make big changes like the ones required for climate
change in the midst of a very bad economic crisis and we’ve had the worst
one since the 1930s. So, I’m confident though that you know ultimately
humanity has a way of responding not always as timely as, on as timely basis
as we would like, but when we start facing down potential catastrophe,
humanity adapts and I think we will this time as well.

"KERRY O’BRIEN: DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE MAKING HEADWAY WITH PRESIDENT HU
ON THIS FRONT?

"PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well you know I think China has an enormous interest in
solving this problem. You know if you talk to Chinese leaders I think they
will acknowledge immediately that if over a billion Chinese citizens have
the same living patterns as Australians and Americans do right now then all
of us are in for a very miserable time, the planet just can’t sustain it,
so they understand that they’ve got to make a decision about a new model
that is more sustainable that allows them to pursue the economic growth that
they’re pursuing while at the same time dealing with these environmental
consequences. So I think they understand intellectually. Right now though
they’re understandable impulse is to say well let’s let the developed
countries, the Australias, and the Americas deal with this problem first and
we’ll get to it when we’ve caught up a little bit in terms of our
standard of living. The point we’ve tried to make is we can’t, we can’t
allow China to wait. We have to take responsibility and do what needs to be
done, but if emerging countries not just China but also India, Brazil and
others are pursuing a path in which they replace us as the largest carbon
emitters, that’s not a sustainable practical approach, so we’re going to
have to have everybody moving on the same track at the same time.

(2) The interview was conducted and broadcast three weeks ago. Beijing has
not protested. Who are you to usurp Beijing?

(3) The "problem" President Obama referred to was the limited resource,
climate change, and/or environment.

Has Beijing done its part?

Read the leaked tape which is reported today.

Tobias Rapp, Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter, The Copenhagen
Protocol: How China and India Sabotaged the UN Climate Summit. Der Spiegel,
May 5, 2010.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,692861,00.html

(4) At last, let's--you and I--be realistic.

(a) Please consult my posting titled "Hard to Tell Which Predictions Will
Materialize" and dated "May 3, 2010."
http://www.yilubbs.com/HT/con_218_M.1272929778.A.htm

(b) Pay attention to the last citation of the original posting:

Nicholas Consonery, A $123 Trillion China? Not Likely. The many, many
reasons -- from the financial crisis to the country's aging population to
environmental limitations -- why Robert Fogel's forecast for China is
completely inconceivable. Foreign Policy, Jan. 7, 2010 (online only).
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/07/a_123_trillion_china_not_likely

Quote: "Is the world ready for the China that Fogel describes (which divined
that in 2040 China's is a 123 Trillion economy--and thus, per capital GDP,
$85,000]? A better question: Is China?"

(5) I will rest my case.

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