favor, China is one of the world’s largest energy users and emitters, however, it also has the largest market for clean tech.  enterprise. I do not know having the largest market for trying to clean up the problem it is creating is necessarily a huge accomplishment, but a lot of countries, including the U.S. could probably follow in their foot steps with clean energy. The Paris commitments china made are kind of B.S. it does not push China to make any real strides to improving their green house gases problem. It seems like something that was just done to look and sound good, but has no real meaning at all. The fact that china announced it will increase its coal usage by 20% and yet they will still be within the Paris agreement limits is proof of this. I completely agree with what was said in the China’s Great Leap Forward Podcast, China  is extremely complex and is not something that you can easily just break down because there never is a simple answer. For example since China doesn’t have its energy needs met and China needs energy, it is kind of hard to argue ,economically, that they shouldn’t use the cheapest option right now, which is coal. However, environmentally you can one hundred percent say China you are dumb for using coal. What  is interesting is in response to Trump China acknowledged that global warming is real and a serious problem and they acknowledge that they need to lower emissions, but yet they are doing everything the exact opposite in order to do this. And I think that being the leader in clean air technology proves that they have the technology and resources to do it if  they really wanted to.

The article by Mark Unsurprisingly brings up a really interesting discussion question, can democracy be sustained in any region with the current environmental challenge taking place?I never thought of our government ideologies as a key or harmful the the environmental crisis issue, but it is a good argument. “‘Humanity will have to trade its liberty to live as it wishes in favor of a system where survival is paramount’ ( Shearman and Smith 2007, p. 4)” I believe this argument is valid because in a authoritarian regime they can just band all behaviour that is counter productive to saving the environment and humanities survival. The article is right when it says that it is a concept hard to accept coming from a democracy where freedom and choice and are one of the most important things to us. I know China has done a  lot to try and  help with the environmental problem, but just like the U.S. it is still not enough. I know this article has potential to be true to a certain extent, I feel pretty certain I can say people are going to have to give up something that value in order to hep combat the environmental issues.