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"A better view would be “consumption-based emission inventories”" That's a different view, to pursue a different agenda, and is certainly not a better view. W
by endorphone 8y ago
"A better view would be “consumption-based emission inventories”"
That's a different view, to pursue a different agenda, and is certainly not a better view.
When every greenhouse gas emission argument boils down to "Why the US/The West is to blame for everything", it turns the whole discussion into anti-science farce.
- hangonhn 8y agoBut the science of emissions is considered solid among sane people and not a point of contention. It's the economics of emissions that people debate over. So wouldn't it make sense to take on the more economic/political view of the problem ?
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoRead the numbers! The point is not who is "to blame" for everything, but to measure how the emission-generating supply chains are coupled to consumer demands. The point is that while we only regulate CO2 emissions at the nation-state level, we only generate an incentive to outsource your heavy industries elsewhere (generating the same or greater emissions) and then ship the resulting finished goods over longer distances, adding more carbon. We need to decrease net global CO2 emissions to zero, and then further into the negatives. Period. Do-or-die. Everything else is a plutocrat's distraction.