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It's pretty short-sighted to blame individual companies for providing what the people want: Affordable energy and transportation. You see what happens if you d
by gridlockd 7y ago
It's pretty short-sighted to blame individual companies for providing what the people want: Affordable energy and transportation.
You see what happens if you drive up prices for gasoline in France: People start rioting in the streets.
If you had gasoline prices like that in the US, whole states would stop functioning.
Also, most CO2 emissions are from countries where people are far poorer than in developed nations. Are you expecting them to become even poorer?
If you don't have a solution to these economic concerns, don't be surprised when world leaders adopt a "devil may care" attitude.
- aaron_m04 7y agoYes! Any solution that screws over the bottom strata of society is no solution at all. We need their cooperation, and they won't be willing to help if we're shitting on them.
- kgabis 7y agoPlease see https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/10/CO2-emissions-by-income-and-region.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/10/CO2-emissions-by-.... 86% of CO2 emissions are created by people in upper-middle income and high income groups.
- gridlockd 7y agoThis doesn't contradict what I said. The OECD defines "upper-middle-income" countries as 4000$-12,000$. This includes major developing countries such as Russia, Brazil and China, all of which have far lower incomes than the US or most of Europe. For reference: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/archive/2017/images/figures-png/WLD-income-map.png http://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/archive/2017/images...