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Isn't it an optimization problem though? Focusing on anything but your bottleneck (or largest carbon producer) has minuscule effects. If the largest carbon pro
by musingsole 6y ago
Isn't it an optimization problem though? Focusing on anything but your bottleneck (or largest carbon producer) has minuscule effects.
If the largest carbon producer did do enough work to become tied with the 2nd largest producer, there's now an argument for why the 2 largest must do something while the rest watch.
Granted, yeah, it'd be better for everyone to do what they can and let's all kumbaya, but it doesn't look like the incentives will ever line up for that.
- Qwertious 6y agoOptimization isn't about focusing on the largest resource consumer, but on the most reducible. (Note that this makes your statement basically tautological) And given that China's main problem is its population (which is basically impossible to reduce much more right now and they're still dealing with negative side-effects from their effective but not-very-nice One Child policy), not it's emissions per person, China doesn't have as much to reduce. Whereas if the US lived at China's level of emissions per capita, then the world's total greenhouse emissions would drop by over 10%.