I am still confused how people attacking the rich , followed by attacking anyone who accomplishes anything which is reminiscent to me of the Russian revolution and the Cambodian genocide by the way , and ' destabilization of governments ' are not doomsday scenarios . Because you made a point about China , deniers , and visible pollution in the same sentence . Right , because it ' s hard to deny what you can see , which is word for word what I said . And those same plants that produce smog also produce CO 2 . Again , I am confused how you thought when I explicitly said they do not deny climate change in China that I was then talking about denial of climate change causing problems in China . Except not really . Economic slowdown played the biggest role . Even then , still increased emissionsChina ' s economy kept growing while emissions dropped . More goods were manufactured yet emissions dropped . Your link states one study said emissions may not have dropped in 2014 , but did drop in 2015 and continued , and notes that numerous studies said they did drop in 2014 also . At best you can argue that economies would have grow at a slightly slower pace while reducing emissions . And even that isn ' t true , because there was an economic slowdown for the entire world in 2008 and after and yet emissions kept growing , until the last 3 years when emissions have decreased , suggesting that in fact trying to combat climate change is at play rather than the economy . Why is that surprising ? As time passes , energy intensities fall . That ' s a normal part of development , regardless of coercion . First that isn ' t even accurate given that global emissions have been rising for a 100 years , yet there ' s been technological progress for all that time too . This suggests in fact that concentrated efforts to fight said emissions have been having effect . Second , even if that were accurate , it suggests that in fact we can decrease emissions without world governments collapsing . What a shocker ! In western countries , as we also steadily lose manufacturing to places which are increasing emissions . I repeat , the entire world ' s emissions did not rise , yet the GDP grew and manufacturing increased . Did we lose manufacturing to Mars ? Also your own link admits China ' s GDP grew while its emissions decreased , and China is obviously not a western country .