Mass protests are set to bring Taiwan’s air pollution issues into sharper focus.
The News Lens
Date: 2017/12/15
By: David Green
In the same week that saw French president Emmanuel Macron warn that the world is
Credit: Morley J Weston
losing the battle against climate change during the “One Planet” summit in Paris, Taiwanese citizens are gearing up to take that battle to the streets.
This weekend, thousands of people are expected to attend rallies in Taichung and Kaohsiung to protest deteriorating air quality.
Demonstrators are asking why politicians in Taipei are so quick to criticize China for blocking Taiwan’s efforts to attend meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but so slow to act on air pollution problems at home.
They feel that an issue that is impossible to ignore in central and southern Taiwan is simply not an issue in Taipei, where DPP legislators spend most of their time.
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