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China's seriousness is our best hope

Yet scariest of all, for all of humanity, is the callous disregard these new leaders seem to hold for the health and wellbeing of our planet.

Trump is not only a climate change denier, in November 2017 he stated that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive".

Despite being the anointed leader of one of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, he has threatened to pull out of last year's historic Paris climate agreement and leave in tatters the commitment made there to limit global warming.

Needless to say, the consequences of this could be apocalyptic. It led China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin to remind the US, earlier this month, that it was Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr who first initiated climate change negotiations.

While for environmental governance expert Deborah Seligsohn from the University of California at San Diego: “not only is climate change no Chinese hoax, but Chinese seriousness may be our best hope."

Of course, no one can say with any certainty what the next few years or decades will bring. But if I were a young boy again today, looking for leadership in this world, I scarcely think it would be to the West that my hopeful gaze would turn.