In the Wake of US Climate Failures, Don't Look to China for a Panacea

[t]   Thursday, September 7, 2017 [t r u t h o u t] [View Recent Newsletters]( [Tell a friend about Truthout!]( [Donate Today!](   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.   BuzzFlash Hurricane Irma: Massive Damage Across Caribbean as Death Toll Rises [Read the Live Updates at the Guardian](   Confronting the Chemical Plant Fires and the Natural, Environmental and Social Disaster That's Harvey [Read the Article at BuzzFlash](   Trump's Surprise Spending Deal Shakes Up Fall Agenda [Read the Article at The Hill](   Begging for War in the Korean Peninsula [Read the Article at BuzzFlash](   The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools [Read the Article at The Hechinger Report](   Catholic Rules Forced This Doctor to Watch Her Patient Sicken -- Now, She's Speaking Out [Read the Article at Rewire](   Trump Administration Sued Over GE Food Labeling [Read the Article at Global Justice Ecology Project](     [In the Wake of US Climate Failures, Don't Look to China for a Panacea]( Richard Smith, Truthout: While Xi Jinping has been eager to assume the role of leader in the fight against global warming, he is unlikely to reverse China's impact on global resource consumption and pollution. The pressures to produce jobs and bring mass consumerism to over a billion people under China's hybrid bureaucratic collectivist-capitalism economy will ensure that Xi will remain committed to prioritizing growth, even at the cost of planetary ecological collapse. [Read the Article]( [The Imperial President Spits the Bit]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Since the days of Abraham Lincoln, the executive branch has sought to expand its powers at the expense of Congress. Trump is no different -- and is in many ways more tyrannical -- than his predecessors, except on the matter of taxes, which he has decided are someone else's responsibility. [Read the Article]( [Trump's Attack on DACA Is an Attack on Public Education]( Rachel Ida Buff, Truthout: In an era of immigration bans and right-wing terror, university campuses have increasingly become sanctuaries for the vulnerable. 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