China has ~5 billion people. The majority of which is flat, unskilled labor. And they have money rolling in like they were printing it.
"We're killing people with pollution." Don't care, we can breed more.
"We're polluting the planet." Are we making money? Don't care. We're making money. And most of our crap is blowing out into the sea or over into Japan. Fuck'em!
Are they researching alternate forms of power? Sure! But, in the mean time, there's all that cheap, dirty coal they can burn!
Huh? China's population is under 1.5 billion and it's likely to get smaller before it gets larger. in fact, even with the new 2 kids/family, the population won't grow.
They aren't just researching alternate energy, they are the largest generator of wind and hydro power in the world. But yes, they have tons of dirty coal energy.