The author has put forward a ridiculous analogy, likening people going about their lawful business to a thug in an alley, on the basis of the invalid assertion by the IPCC and other climate fraud promoters that we are doing damage to the planet.
A valid analogy is the fraud promoters as the thug, attacking citizens whose activities bring them within the ambit of the climate lie.
We need protection from these fraud promoters, and their criminally minde supporters, like Mark.

Hi Joe,
, China is part of the problem, of overpopulation. They still have a lot of people,
despite having taken steps to turn the problem around, unlike the Arabs and Africa
and India.

If there were no consumers demanding coal to cook and power their homes in big populations like China then coal would not be able to be sold in such mass amounts by Western countries.

The consumers are part of the problem, but the author of this article only bashes the
capitalists and the west. It doesn't suit His agenda to blame the consumers in non Western countries as being
a big part of the problem.Eventually the world will start to catch up with solar but that is going to take a couple of decades and more in emerging nations.

I like solar power, but I can't take a liking to those wind turbines. Too strange looking and a blight on the landscape.

Hi Cherful,

No, China is in a lot of trouble with its population - that its one-child policy, in effect for 35 years, may have crippled its population growth for many decades: with few children being born for more than a generation, there are now many fewer child-bearers, especially given the cultural attitudes to female children in a one-child regime. Within a decade or so, China will have a rapidly growing elderly population, and very few younger working people to support them. They may be in a downward-population trap. Their population may stabilise, then start to decline by 2040-2050.

On another issue that you raise, people in every country are entitled to comforts as much as anybody else. If they have to use coal, that's a problem that they alone don't have, we all do, because we all want comforts, luxuries, consumables.

Nuclear power may become inevitable if renewables can't make life easier for people in those poorer countries.

Cheers,

Joe