The recent signal being sent from China’s leadership is that economic revival rests on decreased regard for the environment. This retreat also illustrates how little consensus there is among high-level government officials for making China green.  The danger of the current crisis is not that China’s government is not doing something, but that what it is doing undermines recent hope that China could help to save itself by saving the environment.
中国领导层最近传达的信息是，经济的复苏依靠的是减少对环境的关注。中国的这一退步也说明，在中国的政府高官中，保护环境的共识是多么得少。对中国来说，当前经济危机的危险不是政府没有采取措施，而是它采取的措施破坏了人们最近对其可以通过保护环境来帮助其自身的希望。