Can a return to Buddhist values offer China a greener path?

[Gerard]

Is this a sign of a possible shift in planetary consciousness?

 

Please watch the following video (if you haven't already):

 

Link

 

Kind regards.

 

[Jetsun]

That's encouraging. If the Chinese really got behind green and renewable technology they could probably make big progress, as we can't rely on most of the Western countries to do so as their political and economic structures are too linked in to preserving the use of fossil fuels.

[soaring crane]

Can't hurt :-)

[soaring crane]

For later, don't know if the link will work

 

http://m.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/a-1022281.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=

[ChiForce]

Bad reporting...Hehehehe.... Typical mindless liberal academia trying to get a handle of an issue by using some simple narrative (atheist Chinese destroys their own environment and now to save it they turn to god).  FYI, you don't get stoned to death just because you aren't a Buddhist.  Atheist vs non atheist???  LOL.  Like saying Christians do not start wars and invading other countries...heheheh    Chinese people have always been the believers of Buddhism and Taoism.  Look at the TV series and dramas they have been watching.  Chinese people are also materialistic, even more so in places like HK and some big urban cities in China.  The environmental issues are the results of a decade long double digital GDP growth!!!!!  Now, China is heading to a new normal, slower economic growth due to the slow down in the world economy as well as trying to address the quality of life issues in China.

 

Better environments?  More environmental protection policies and using advance technology to address the issues.  Of course, creating a more environmental friendly manufacturer industry.  All of this will come at a price.

Edited March 7, 2015 by ChiForce

[soaring crane]

Here's a link to the same story in English:

 

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/chinese-censors-pollution-documentary/

 

Seemed profoundly ironic to come across this right after seeing the video posted here.

[ChiForce]

Wait a minute...any reference to Buddhism in the documentary??? 

[soaring crane]

Wait a minute...any reference to Buddhism in the documentary??? 

 

I don't think so:

 

 

 

[ChiForce]

http://www.dw.de/beijings-credibility-on-the-line-over-chinas-environmental-crisis/a-18299429

[gendao]

That's encouraging. If the Chinese really got behind green and renewable technology they could probably make big progress, as we can't rely on most of the Western countries to do so as their political and economic structures are too linked in to preserving the use of fossil fuels.

Well...who says they're not?

Oh yea...the Anglo mass media which primarily focuses ONLY on pollution in China...while regularly omitting the fact that they currently already outspend EVERY country on the PLANET (including the US) on renewable energy???

China Leads The World In Renewable Energy Investment

China was responsible for almost one-fifth of total global investment, spending $52 billion on renewable energy last year.

According to China’s 12th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2011-2015), the country will spend $473.1 billion on clean energy investments over the next five years. China’s goal is to have 20 percent of its total energy demand sourced from renewable energy by 2020.

The United States is upset, and I quote, that China’s solar panels are still “too cheap.”

But, but, but — the Obama administration will sputter in lame defense — China so heavily subsidizes their domestic solar industry, the United States obviously needs to impose more tariffs in order to compensate for that heavy subsidization. …I.e., protectionism. I.e., the exact same thing of which the Obama administration is accusing India in trying to get them to buy our own heavily subsidized solar panels.

Whereas the US outspends every country BY FAR on...their military!

Edited March 7, 2015 by gendao

[GrandmasterP]

Anything that reduces pollution is good.

This is a step in the right direction.

[thelerner]

Gendao, if you don't have any thoughts Chinese pollution ignore the thread.  You don't have to keep switching subjects 3 or 4 times within a post.  There are threads around that touch on the various topics you mention.

Sorry, but I don't see any connection between the various subjects you brought up and the OP.

Edited March 10, 2015 by thelerner

[gendao]

Sorry, but I don't see any connection between the various subjects you brought up and the OP.

That despite common misperception (Yellow Peril propaganda) in the West...China is NOT the world's greatest polluter and is already taking the most aggressive corrective action towards a greener future in the world? 

From repetitive Western media reports, you'd think China has the worst air pollution, right?  But how come there are no repeated articles on Pakistan's or India's air pollution, which are actually even worse?

And who's actually using up all the most resources?

The US consumes 12 times more electricity then all of Africa combined, and about 5 times more then China.

Whereas one of the glaring areas that China actually needs to improve the MOST in, is ironically not even covered much in the Western press...

 

Now obviously the widescale results can't happen overnight, but contrary to popular Western belief, China's green gears are...already well in motion...

China expects to grow solar installations 70% this year, reaching levels no other country has ever seen.

China is taking growth to another level. It recently set the most aggressive goal of any country by targeting 17.8 GW of solar installations in 2015.

There are three main drivers of China's push into solar: It is looking for ways to generate more of its own energy rather than relying on imported coal and oil, it needs to reduce the pollution that is literally choking major cities like Beijing, and installing solar projects supports a domestic manufacturing industry that has teetered on the brink of collapse for most of the past three years.

The world's vegetation has expanded, adding nearly 4 billion tonnes of carbon to plants above ground in the decade since 2003, thanks to tree-planting in China

China, which has had tree-planting projects for two to three decades

Edited April 27, 2015 by gendao