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I don’t think anyone is claiming the UK hasn’t got its fair share of cleaning up todo. But that doesn’t change the fact that CA and the US is equally, if not m
by avianlyric 7y ago
I don’t think anyone is claiming the UK hasn’t got its fair share of cleaning up todo.
But that doesn’t change the fact that CA and the US is equally, if not more, guilty. It’s not like the US opted out of the industrial revolution, or the subsequent oil based economy.
The vast majority (~70%) of total human Co2 emissions happened after 1960. Since the 1960 the US has been the largest Co2 emitter until ~2000 when China became the largest emitter.
But the US has been consistently, and continues to be, the largest emitter per capita, generally emitting twice the amount per capita of the UK.
So in short, the UK may have committed sins. But the US has worked hard and managed to commit even greater sins on almost every environmental metric. I’m sorry, when it comes to environmental damage the UK and EU just can’t compete with what the US has inflicted and continues to inflict.
- renewiltord 7y agoIn CO2 tons / sanctimony unit they certainly are the leaders. I'll gladly amend my position to condemn the US too, but the UK and the EU are on no high horse. Merely pumping out masses of people is no defence for blotting the Earth with their slime.
- avianlyric 7y agoI think you need to take a chill pill, and maybe reconsider some of those racist views you seem to be cultivating there. They’re make you look like a rather ugly individual.
- renewiltord 6y agoIt's pretty typical of apologists to pull this tone policing. Here's a comic that describes it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXYRT4UwAAgdMy.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXYRT4UwAAgdMy.jpg