Well, the best thing that has come out of this episode (aside from
contact with an old student who I will definitely quiz) is John's
comment below:
John Gulick wrote:
There is indeed a tiny core of principled eco-socialists
in the PRC's Environmental Ministry that desperately promoted
the "green GDP" (warts and all) concept, but Beijing bigshots
appropriated the concept mainly because 1) it fit well with the
Third Way/"sustainable development" reimaging of party ideology
and 2) they knew in advance that local cadres and enterprise
managers would never actualize the scheme, nor could they be
forced to. In any event I recall reading something recently about
the scant few "green GDP" pilot projects being abandoned because
(among other reasons) they were raising the expectations and
hence encouraging the independent mobilization of China's scores
of militant anti-pollution movements (movements that put the
foundation-infested "environmental justice" movements in the US
to shame, by the way!!!)...
I really would like to hear more about (a) that core of principled
eco-socialists and (b) those militant anti-pollution movements. Is that
possible, John?
michael
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