 Wilkenfield explains that "this rather misses the point that the continuing rise in global greenhouse gas emissions is not a byproduct of injustice or repression but of economic freedom in the West and the unrelenting economic growth by which repressive regimes such as China’s buy legitimacy.In general, very few people want to be freed from consumption—most want the freedom to consume even more".Wilkenfield goes on to say that Diesendorf misses some of the dynamics of consumption