Latest comments posted about Tackling climate change – and inequality on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1921-Tackling-climate-change-and-inequality http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1921-Tackling-climate-change-and-inequality I think there are some mistakes in labeling minorities being treated as second class citizens in all national policies and they have been oppressed for the past 100 years (comment 2), I think a majority of all people in China have been treated as second class citizens and oppressed. While most Chinese have yet accepted the ideas of true democracy and equality, they have fully embraced the Western sense of excess and largess, while most of them can't afford it, they no less aspire to it. Achievement and happiness have been equated with the amount of money one has and how much more he has over the next guy, and in such a society, the environment, along with other areas of public wealth such as fairness and equality, suffers most. QS Fri, 02 May 2008 05:20:00 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7325 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7325 I agree with the author of this post. Fairness is a critical aspect of climate change policies, both national and global. However, to suggest to the Chinese government that it needs to be more considerate to the needs of its rural and minority people illustrates a profound lack of understanding as to how the Chinese government operates. The rural and minority people have been oppressed by Chinese leadership for over 100 years. They are treated as second class citizens in all national policies. Before climate change policies can become more evenly beneficial it necessary that the Chinese government and the majority population, the Han, begin to view minorities and rural folk as equal to themselves rather than inferior. CU Nappo Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:07:22 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7292 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7292 I agree with the author of the last comment. Before meaningful environmental change can take place, the government first needs to take a good look at itself and reevaluate their attitudes towards minority populations. Fixing these rural/minority environmental concerns is never going to take place unless the social justice violations are addressed as well. As China continues to grow and develop, it is going to be placed under the international scope of scrutiny pretty intensely. The government needs to be prepared to deal with that. CU Deetz Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:10 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7317 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7317 While we cheer about economic development in the cities in eastern China, we can not ignore a series of environmental problems in western China, such as forest ecosystems imbalance and severe damage of biodiversity. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:17:50 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7248 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1921#comment-7248