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At Glasgow climate change talks, the world will have a China problem

The Chinese Communist Party knows that the only way it can stay in power is by continuing the expansion in goods produced by factories running on cheap energy.

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
The world has once again got all worked up over climate change. This happens every now and then. Everyone is meeting in Glasgow to talk about it. Countries will make promises they can’t keep. Or have no intention of keeping.

Thus, if I may be permitted a low pun, is a copout. CoP26, as Greta Thunberg the much-celebrated climate activist has said, isn’t going to achieve anything much. 

So the big question today is not if enough countries will cooperate to do whatever is necessary to achieve the target for global warming, which is an increase of 1.5 degrees over
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