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If I had to guess: Justice. Wealthy nations like ours are the primary driver of climate change while poor nations will suffer the bulk of the damage.

• notJim 7y ago
  In addition to that, wealthy nations developed by exploiting resources like forests and oil. Now we're asking less-developed nations not to do that. Instead, they need to leapfrog that phase of development, which will cost money they don't have.
• jfrankamp 7y ago
  I'd go one more explicit step: the carbon we emitted made us wealthy while externalizing the costs. The recipe for gaining wealth at present for poor countries is, emit a shit ton of carbon in the pursuit of growth. If we're serious about reducing emissions we'll have to provide a different recipe.
• rinchik 7y ago
  Well you guessed wrong. What justice? Developing nations are the major polluters (reasons aside, that's just a fact). If there was "justice" for pollution we'd be at war.
  • connectsnk 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... Wrong. Per capita, developed nations are the most heavy polluters and have externalized the costs while privatizing the profits
• nostromo 7y ago
  US and EU have reduced carbon emissions in the past decade. Meanwhile China almost doubled their emissions, and now emits more than the US and EU combined. China now burns more coal than all the other countries of the world, combined. Any plan ignoring China's dramatic carbon emissions growth (for example: the Paris Accords) will do nothing to stop climate change.
  • connectsnk 7y ago
    That might be true but you also have to consider that US and EU are still the biggest polluter per capita outstripping other countries by a huge margin. United states CO2 emissions is 16.5 tonnes per capita whereas India is at 1.7 tonnes per capita. Even if United States reduces its emissions by 50%, they will still be 500% more than India