Posts Tagged ‘china’

Chinese Pollution

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

At Emma’s graduation ceremony last night, the honourary graduate was Madam Fu Ying, ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United Kingdom. In his introduction of her, Professor Simon Thompson mentioned that, as part of a discussion with University of Kent politics students, she had pointed out that…

China is responsible for less than 1% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, after over 100 years of industrial pollution by the west.

Interesting.