The Chinese capital, Beijing, has suffered from notoriously bad air quality, as shown in this 2013 image.

China and the United States are the world’s largest energy users and greenhouse gas emitters by a great margin. They are also the most powerful and influential nations on earth and therefore can have the greatest leverage on the direction taken globally in managing the environment. National policy is the primary tool for achieving the goal of a healthy, controllable, and prosperous future. A review of these two great nations’ current policy status is illuminating.

We hear constantly that China is polluted. Dispatches from reporters and expats in Beijing sound like an environmentalist’s dystopian nightmare, full of traffic jams, tainted baby formula, and personal air purifiers. Residents plan their days around air quality reports; there’s even an app for that.....Continue Reading

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