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>Halting climate Halting or mitigating? I don't see climate change halting when 3/4 of the world are still clawing out of developing status. Whatever projectio

• shkkmo 7y ago
  > I don't see climate change halting when 3/4 of the world are still clawing out of developing status. The article suggests that is a good thing and we should help this 3/4 of the world to acheive afluence >> “If you want to minimize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2070 you might want to accelerate the burning of coal in India today,” MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel said. >> “It doesn’t sound like it makes sense. Coal is terrible for carbon. But it’s by burning a lot of coal that they make themselves wealthier, and by making themselves wealthier they have fewer children, and you don’t have as many people burning carbon, you might be better off in 2070.” >>“You’ve got to come up with some kind of middle ground where you do reasonable things to mitigate the risk and try at the same time to lift people out of poverty and make them more resilient,” said Emanuel. “We shouldn’t be forced to choose between lifting people out of poverty and doing something for the climate.”