I don't despise the west, I despise idiots everywhere. I come from the western model. It's wonderful. For me. I can't foist it on someone who doesn't agree.
One doesn't sit around doing nothing. One formulates workable policies and actions to halt the damage. They did this in the Montreal Protocol for Ozone. It can be done again, but flinging themselves about talking crap about fascists and racists and capitalists isn't going to help. Utilizing frightened children isn't going to help. Scientists despair of getting anything practical done under the circumstances.
Only action that is going to be of some use is going to help.
I will think more of them when they start acting instead of merely following fashionable agendas to stay in power or to get into power by making promises to future electorates that they will bring Shangri-la to all people. They just make me want to hit them with a very large flat paddle. They are insincerity personified.
China is doing all sorts of interesting things concerning the climate change issue, but no one ever hears about these things. Too busy slagging off their political and social enemies.