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China actually has more ambitious CO2 targets than many other countries: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/ https://climateactiontracker.org/coun
by bildung 6y ago
China actually has more ambitious CO2 targets than many other countries: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/ https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
- ginko 6y agoLooks like the page you linked considers China's climate targets "Highly Insufficient" with the CO2 output mostly staying the same for the next decade.
- oblio 6y agoChina is a country where many people are still living in mud huts or close to it. If they manage to lift those hundreds of millions of people out of poverty AND "just" keep their emissions constant, I consider that as a win for humanity. Everyone else, especially in developed countries, needs to bring their per capita emissions radically down.
- posix_me_less 6y ago> I consider that as a win for humanity. Is it though? How do we people of the Earth now win if it is 2100 and there is 2x more of us and the emissions are the same?
- oblio 6y agoBecause I don't actually think it will work that way. Humans are generally rational and non-starving people even more so. China sees itself as an eternal kingdom, I doubt they plan to boil themselves in this newfound prosperity.
- posix_me_less 6y agoDid anybody plan to breathe polluted air and experience climate change? The more people there is, the harder the impact on the environment.
- oblio 6y agoChina's population has stabilized and is predicted to decrease rather significantly over this century.