In an article published in the 6th issue of 2024 in the “Journal of Fujian Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)”, Zhao Bin and Ma Yuchen argue that global environmental governance has not become more effective with the advancement of global modernization. On one hand, the Western model of modernization has deviated from the environmental justice it advocates, becoming the root cause of the tension between humans and nature. On the other hand, the homogenization of regional approaches and the unreasonable world order in global governance have led to frequent environmental injustices. The global environmental governance system and order urgently need structural and holistic changes.
Disenchanting the Western model of modernization and returning modernization to its essence is a way to seek global justice from its origins. Re-enchanting regional and national approaches, on the other hand, hopes to reshape the world order by returning to regional participation in global governance. How emerging powers, represented by countries such as China, can achieve non-Western modernization and participate in global environmental governance in their own regional and national ways is key to disenchant the western-style modernization and re-enchanting regional governance with "personal charm."
— Social Sciences Weekly, January 9