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China becomes an Actor

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/03/china-pledges-limit-carbon-emissions

I looked up an article about China because after our class discussion on thursday, i realized that our elections looked very differently in the eyes of our international students, most of whichare from China. This led me to research if China viewed things about the Climate differently as well.

After reading this article I was shocked to discover that only recently has China, the largest emittor of greenhouse gasses, will begin to combat the harmful affects that CO2 emmissions have on the environment in their region.

They plan to use a carbon tap, but the level on which the cap will be has not yet be established.

This article made me think about the Collapse of Western civilization, where china, seemingly comes out on top, but according to this article, unless China gets in emissions under control this wil not be likely.