China’s One Child Policy and Carbon Offset Credits

Same problem, same solution, same mistake.

propaganda posters, one child policy. The girl child is hand in hand with her mother and holding up a booklet. Caption reads: I have got my ‘only child certificate’! 我领到了独生证. March 11, 2009. (photo: kattebelletje)

Once upon a time, many decades ago, the Chinese Communist Party faced a looming environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the making.

It was on the near horizon, directly and immediately threatening to upend lives and progress, endangering the very survival of the Chinese people as a whole and every person…