Pants for progress: Chinese climate protesters strip off on train – China Environment

Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity.

China is the world’s workshop and makes things for the world to the dentriment of its own environment. The damage to our natural environs is a punishment for us all being eager to make fast bucks in an irresponsible way.

If agreement to reform the international regime for tackling global warming is the criterion for judging the successor to last year's climate conference debacle in Copenhagen, the result will most likely be failure.

A global lights out show that wastes more energy. Days ago text messages were sent to my inbox to tip me that there would be a global action called Earth Hour which calls on the Earth people to turn off their lights, computers and TVs and other human inventions comsuming electricity, and I was convinced.