Air pollution and climate change

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are joined by Deborah Seligsohn, former science counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego, where she studies environmental governance in China. With more than 20 years of China experience, Deborah is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the question of China's policy response to issues of air pollution and climate change. Recommendations: "How China, the ‘world’s largest polluter,’ is taking on climate change," by Deborah Seligsohn (Non-pay walled version is on SCMP attached below) http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1891794/how-china-worlds-largest-polluter-taking-climate-change https://www.chinafile.com/contributors/deborah-seligsohn http://www.chinafaqs.org/expert/deborah-seligsohn David Moser The Last Dalai Lama http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/the-last-dalai-lama.html?_r=0 The Age of Irreverence http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Irreverence-History-Laughter/dp/0520283848 Deborah Seligsohn Hey, China, this is why democracies beat autocracies in a fight. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/15/hey-china-this-is-why-democracies-beat-autocracies-in-a-fight-so-back-off-the-south-china-sea/ Kaiser Kuo ISIS is a revolution https://aeon.co/essays/why-isis-has-the-potential-to-be-a-world-altering-revolution See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China coming to you from a pop-up Chinese studio here in Beijing.
0:15.9	I'm Kaiser-Guo, joined this week by David Moser.
0:19.0	Mozer, by the way, was a surname derived from the Latin for one who mozies.
0:24.8	How are you, David?
0:26.0	Mozieing along, Kaiser.
0:27.3	Oh, good, good, good.
0:27.8	So today, as we record, we're actually the first day of Beijing's second red alert for smog, though.
0:34.4	As I was mooseying over earlier, the PM2.5 count was only about 106 this afternoon.
0:39.3	It doesn't look so terrible as I look up the window.
0:41.3	It doesn't look up the window.
0:42.3	It doesn't look up the red alert at all.
0:43.3	No, no. There's a tinge of it in the air, it looks like, but hey, you so-called airpocalypse, which oddly did not trigger a red alert.
0:56.1	And the following week was the first actual red alert, which, in a widely noted irony,
1:01.3	coincided with the Paris meeting with COP21, the 21st Conference of Parties, to the Convention on Climate Change, since 1992.
1:11.0	Air pollution and climate change are not one and the same issue, of course, but they are
1:16.2	related, especially to those of us in Beijing, those of us to a country like China, where
1:21.3	the burning of coal is a significant contributor to both, but joining us on Seneca to talk both
1:27.3	about issues of climate
1:29.0	change and air pollution is Deborah Sellegson, who is one of the most knowledgeable people
1:34.7	out there on China and climate change recently back from Paris. Deborah is the former
1:41.8	science counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, a 20-year veteran of the
1:46.0	State Department, founder of the China Climate Program at the World Resources Institute, and now
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