I ran across an interesting collection of articles
over at Instapundit today, which I am highly amused by. Apparently, Sir Nicholas Stern, the British
preacher of doom, has been going around
repeating the absurd claim that Chinese air-quality standards are
too high for the American auto industry to be able to send cars over there.
Of course, there's nothing new about claims like this. I honestly cannot remember a time in my life where the Left has failed to attack the West for things which were, at the very least,
not the West's fault.
Tim Blair has done a fantastic job
rounding up some other notable Leftists who repeat this claim essentially verbatim. He has also pointed us to Right-Thinking, who has provided first-hand
photographic evidence of Chinese environmental policy, which makes Los Angeles look like an ecological
paradise.
I remember walking through a Russian bookstore in the suburbs of Maryland (the largest in the country--which, sadly, was
forced to close some time ago) that contained
thousands of old Soviet books, including the textbooks they used internally,
and the ones they sent overseas to other countries in "goodwill" missions--textbooks which, of course, represented the
Soviet line. (Not that the Soviets ever tried to
communize the world or anything.)
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