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> Solving climate change, in fact, requires getting China, India and all the other developing countries on board to cut emissions. But of course, their goal is
by hodgesrm 7y ago
> Solving climate change, in fact, requires getting China, India and all the other developing countries on board to cut emissions. But of course, their goal is to lift their populations out of poverty with cheap and reliable energy. How do we square that?
This is the money point in the article. It's difficult to see how we can successfully combat climate change if it means rolling back advances in eradication of poverty. [0] We need technical solutions that work without requiring everyone to be a saint.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty