{"id":42258,"date":"2026-03-07T23:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/?p=42258"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:50:55","slug":"david-stepan-cina-je-v-ekologii-dal-nez-evropa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/ekonomika\/david-stepan-cina-je-v-ekologii-dal-nez-evropa\/","title":{"rendered":"David \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n: China is further ahead in ecology than Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"wnd_TextBlock_74371773355700287462_inner_0\"><strong>David \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n, a Czech educator and chairman of the Czech Republic's Smer party, praised China's approach to environmental protection. In his opinion, China has a huge advantage over Europe - it has learned from its own historical mistakes and therefore knows that ecology must not be narrowed down to a single issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"wnd_TextBlock_74371773355700287462_inner_1\"><em>\u201eWhile in Europe today we are experiencing a madness called the Green Deal, I see it more like Green Death,\u201c <\/em>said \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n. Unlike the EU, he said, China takes a comprehensive approach to nature protection. Among the main priorities for the country of 1.5 billion people are providing drinking water, cleaning the soil of toxic substances and fighting plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"wnd_TextBlock_74371773355700287462_inner_2\"><em>\u201eChina is far ahead of Europe in recycling plastics and in protecting people from microplastics in food,\u201c <\/em>\u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"wnd_TextBlock_74371773355700287462_inner_3\">In his view, the connection between ecology and a functioning economy is essential. <em>\u201eOnly a state that is efficient and has enough money can do big conservation projects. We in Europe do the opposite - first we destroy our own industry under the pretext of fighting CO2, and then there are no funds left for ecology,\u201c <\/em>He concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"wnd_TextBlock_74371773355700287462_inner_4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ksc4.cms.webnode.cz\/l\/david-stepan-cina-je-v-ekologii-dal-nez-evropa\/#\"><strong>CMG<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n, a Czech educator and chairman of the Czech Republic's Smer party, praised China's approach to environmental protection. According to him, China has a...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2973],"tags":[22,18,9006,11348,11351,4094,3071,11352,11349,11350],"class_list":["post-42258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ekonomika","category-zahranicni","tag-cina","tag-cmg","tag-david-stepan","tag-ekologicka-politika","tag-ekonomika-a-ekologie","tag-evropska-unie","tag-green-deal","tag-mikroplasty-v-potravinach","tag-ochrana-zivotniho-prostredi-v-cine","tag-recyklace-plastu-v-cine","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42259,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258\/revisions\/42259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}