Environment
Monday 29 May 2023
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“Many people may wonder why Japan won’t discharge the nuclear-contaminated water, which it claims to be safe and harmless, into Japan’s inland rivers or use it for agricultural and industrial purposes and instead insists on dumping it into the ocean? It is extremely irresponsible of Japan to selfishly put the world at risk.”
Scientific studies indicate that the release of diluted wastewater would have a negligible effect on the oceanic environment. -
“Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a series of missile attacks with long-range precision air and sea-based weapons against the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. All targets were hit and destroyed.”
Russian missiles hit residential areas killing two and wounding more than 40 Ukrainian civilians. Hundreds of homes have been damaged and destroyed. -
“U.S. officials continue to escalate the situation, intimidating the American and international public with sham Russian ‘nuclear threats.’ ”
Russia’s nuclear doctrine appears to have shifted with a drumbeat of threats to strike first in Ukraine. -
“[T]he U.S. side might as well do something real and beneficial for the people of Pakistan.”
The U.S. is giving large sums of humanitarian aid to Pakistan. China is misrepresenting U.S. concern about Islamabad’s debt to Beijing. -
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine have mined containers with chemically dangerous substances at a factory in the city of Lysychansk in an attempt to organize another provocation.”
The Lysychansk plant produces industrial grade rare gases that do not pose a chemical warfare threat. -
“U.S. plans a Holodomor in Ukraine … Russia’s actions have no impact on the world’s food problem.”
Source: Russian state sources, May 11, 2022Russia’s invasion has disrupted farms and walled off Ukrainian exports that are critical for many countries. -
Iran’s mismanagement of water resources by building dams and diverting rivers is depriving Iraq of water.
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"Russia and China insist that the United States, as the only state party to the Convention that has not completed the process of destroying chemical weapons, accelerate the elimination of its chemical weapons stockpiles."
Russia allegedly used a nerve agent against dissident Alexey Navalny; China has restricted information scientists want about the pandemic origins in Wuhan. -
“If you look at the story (of power plant outages) from another perspective, it's a reflection of Chinese effort and seriousness to adjust our energy structure and limit the use of coal.”
In fact, coal shortages were behind China’s recent string of power plant outages. China is actually producing the most coal in six years. -
"Saudi Arabia aims to limit climate change and combat it effectively, which is a unified goal for the international community."
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“Greenhouse gas emissions have effectively been put under control in 2020. China’s carbon emission intensity reduced by 18.8 percent … basically reversing the rapid growth of CO2 emissions.”
China has only reduced carbon dioxide emissions relative to its economy. Total greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow. -
“[T]he largest emitter in cumulative terms is the U.S. Climate change is the result of cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases.”
By blaming the United States, China distracts from its current rank as the world’s gigantically biggest emitter of global warming gases.