Climate Change - Is China the Mother of the West?

The two great asian powers of the 20 first century have both, despite their very different cultural traditions, found ways of embracing climate science. I mean, its particularly striking merely in the case of ofe modis india, whiche, after all, there is an outright challenge by hindo nationalism to the authority of western science. But nevertheless, modi's leadership has been one in which india has taken ownership of the climate issue. And the more astonishing thing, of course, is that it's precisely the western political culture of the united states which is not capable of stabilizing its political system around the authority of science.