'Democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming.'

Dictators can be persuaded to act on tainted data.

In a democracy, voters question why they should support policies that have only tainted data to justify them.

China isn't totalitarian to the extent it is controlled by economic forces beyond its control. If global corporations decide that something isn't feasible in terms of climate reform, it simply won't happen, no matter how independently Beijing might like to decide it should.

Further, how much do we really know about how decisions are made and informed behind the scenes in the Chinese communist party? There may be a great deal of influence exerted by engineers and business people from Europe and around the globe and so there is a sort of democracy going on within that party, only it's a private closed discourse rather than an open public one.

But the bottom line is whether Beijing actually holds sufficient power to stand up to global economic forces where climate reform interests conflict with them. I would guess Beijing will ultimately bow to business rather than take a stand against it in the interest of climate reform.

Is this thread a conservative example of outrage porn?

I see her point.

No outrage on my end. I was just replying to a post.

I'm not sure who "her" refers to.