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I actually find it a bit sickening when I hear people like Trump say that they don't want to stop polluting because China is polluting, and increasingly so. Chi
by sorenjan 8y ago
I actually find it a bit sickening when I hear people like Trump say that they don't want to stop polluting because China is polluting, and increasingly so. China have more than four times as many inhabitants, most of them live nowhere close the same lifestyle as the average or even most of the poorest Americans (or Europeans, I'm not putting all the blame on the US). A lot of western manufacturing is outsourced to countries like China, meaning that some of their pollution is actually ours. We in the west have also had a lot of time building our economy using fossil fuel, so we have a pretty significant climate debt. But the argument "others do it too" isn't a valid argument.