In Fact with Kyle Obermann on China’s green development
“You could spend hours and hours, or maybe even a PhD degree, but this series did a really good job at boiling down all the facts, all the different opinions into really digestible-size videos that give you the facts you need to know about China’s green development”.
Tune in In Fact with Kyle Obermann from Sep 23-27, only on CGTN Europe.
Tune in In Fact with Kyle Obermann from Sep 23-27, only on CGTN Europe.
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00:00My name is Kyle Oberman, and I'm an environmental writer, researcher, and photographer.
00:11Well, I lived and worked in China for about six to seven years.
00:15I also speak fluent Mandarin, and when I was in China, I was working across China's new
00:20national parks and also nature reserve systems with Chinese forest rangers and scientists,
00:26and we got to see the front lines of Chinese conservation, whether that's forest protection,
00:31protection of some of China's most endangered species, and also disappearing glaciers.
00:35So I really got to see a massive swath of the country and what was happening, and also
00:40what was at risk of losing.
00:41I think one of the most impressive parts of when we think about China's environmental
00:45protection is just the speed of change.
00:48When I was there in the 2010s, you could see this radical shift from a China that really
00:53just only cared about the economy to one that really saw the environment as key to
00:59having a good economy and having good health.
01:01I think these five episodes, they really highlight, one, the sheer complexity of the issue.
01:06I think there's a lot of people with different opinions, and I don't think that either side
01:10is completely wrong, but I do think that the priority and the reward economically or for
01:17humanitarian reasons or for environmental reasons of protecting the environment and
01:20prioritizing action on climate change speaks for itself and can unite all of our interests.
01:26There are win-wins here, and I think that we need to come together, look at the research
01:31and the facts, and then make decisions based off of that.