"Reducing CO2 is a Question of Social Justice"--
An Interview with Chang Kow-lung, EPA Minister
interview by Coral Lee/photos by Chuang Kung-ju/tr. by Anthony W. Sariti
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Longtime leader of Taiwan's anti-nuclear movement and former professor of physics at National Taiwan University, Chang Kow-lung took office this summer as EPA Minister and then began actively to promote his economizing ideas. Recently he even made some candid and critical remarks on the low cost of hydro-electric power in Taiwan and Tai-wan's oil pricing policy, saying this was nothing less than the behavior of a "barbaric society." Faced with the tough task of reducing greenhouse gases, a topic that takes center stage in international debates, how can the EPA play the role of negotiator, wedged as it is between the ministries of economic affairs, interior, transportation and communications, and agriculture? With his characteristic firmness, the cultured and refined Minister Chang agreed to give Sinorama an interview in which he presented his views on the reduction of carbon dioxide.
