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Hang on. The US pulled out the Paris accord. The US also had a huge financial crisis that caused emissions to drop. I don't think policy can take credit for the
by jamesblonde 8y ago
Hang on. The US pulled out the Paris accord. The US also had a huge financial crisis that caused emissions to drop. I don't think policy can take credit for the slight reductions in Co2 emissions, from ridiculously high levels.
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- sremani 8y agoPolicy tinkering as a solution to climate problem is like EU trying to force Windows to include other browsers to dethrone IE. What actually dethroned IE was Chrome and better Firefox. Policy wonking can push you in certain direction, but they do not solve. Sometimes the bridge technologies are the ones that save from imminent doom. People demonstrating urgency with climate change, can certainly set an example by cutting their quality of life by half for starters!
- majewsky 8y agoWho's to say that regulations didn't play into the demise of IE? Maybe if we hadn't had the antitrust cases in the EU (and the US!), at some point MS would've been confident enough to just make it impossible to install a different browser. Similar to how Apple requires all iOS browsers to use the Apple's engine.