Andrew sent me this China Is Leading the Race to Make Clean Energy today and it is more positive–and true!–and it’s from the New York Times! If you read it with a careful comb though, it’s easy to find our famililar NYT anti-Sino bias.

By 2012, China is expected to surpass the U.S. in terms of total power generation, “Yet renewable energy may be doing more for China’s economy than for the environment. Total power generation in China is on track to pass the United States in 2012 — and most of the added capacity will still be from coal.”

This is assuming that China veers from the the path that it is currently on in terms of integrating clean energy into the grid, and that INDIVIDUALS in China don’t make further demands. When these Chinese individuals are educated about their environment, and are given the outlet for voicing thier concerns, the rate of “greening” will quicken. It’s not fair to assume that all these factors in China will stay the same: if all these factors were the same as 10 years ago, we would’t even be seeing this article in the New York Times.