A professor at Grinnell College praised China's authoritarian government's "magnificent" and "enlightened" transformation of society, contrasting it with the "grotesquely immoral" environmental policies in the United States.
Biology professor David Campbell said that the developing world should look to China as an example of a country that has "ethically" looked to "the welfare of its people," according to Campus Reform.
"Authoritarian governments can make rapid decisions. Sometimes they’re benign, more often than not they’re malignant … but by and large, I think the Chinese government in the last few decades has been very enlightened," biology professor David Campbell said in an interview with Scarlet & Black, the college’s official newspaper.
"There’s been a magical transformation of the economy and of the welfare of its people. And it’s been brilliant," he added. "No other civilization in the history of our species has accomplished so much, so fast. Magnificent."
Campbell made the comments while discussing his April 23 lecture, "Will China Save the World?"
"The developing world must realize that it must proceed as ethically as it can, to look out for the welfare of its people, like China is," he said.
