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Well I'll take that bet. Climate activists have advocated that precisely the opposite should happen: that they should maintain or even increase their growth sin
by bitlax 7y ago
Well I'll take that bet. Climate activists have advocated that precisely the opposite should happen: that they should maintain or even increase their growth since they are developing economies.
- pstuart 7y agoYou're betting that Trump is going to push policies that address climate change? The same individual who says that climate change is a hoax? Who praises clean coal and says that wind turbines cause cancer?
- bitlax 7y agoNo, I'm betting that changes in U.S. production will have little to no impact on inspiring China and India to decrease their emissions.
- pstuart 7y agoMy point was that our current approach leads to zero impact on other nations. How can we even ask of others when we can't do the needful ourselves.
- jellicle 7y agoClimate activists have made the much more subtle point that it is unjust to expect nations which have never industrialized not to industrialize so that rich industrial nations can run their air conditioners with the doors open and their SUVs idling.
- bitlax 7y agoRight. In the case of China, they missed the boat on modernization when they instituted communism. Now the world can't afford their emissions.