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Reducing them is great. Trusting China to self-regulate their emissions is the height of stupidity. Us paying China to then turn around and lie is even dumber y
by blacktriangle 6y ago
Reducing them is great. Trusting China to self-regulate their emissions is the height of stupidity. Us paying China to then turn around and lie is even dumber yet.
Want to reduce CO2? You'll need to embargo China and then start ramping up domestic regulation.
- ceejayoz 6y agoReducing emissions by triggering World War Three is a plan, I suppose.
- jessaustin 6y agoAny time "the leaders of the world" get together for any stated purpose, some of them are trying to bring about exactly this.
- throw0101a 6y agoI've always liked the term "not on my watch". It probably derives from the maritime world, but is useful in my sysadmin career. In many (larger) organizations you cannot ensure everything is running smoothly all the time. But you can look after everything in your own (IT) wheel house. As a Canadian I cannot do much about China's (or India's) action, but I can do stuff about what happens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where I live. So I will push for progress where I can, with the things under 'my watch', because it is the right thing to do. Doing the right thing yourself is sometimes the only thing you can do.
- blacktriangle 6y agoThe thing about global pollution, it's global. The actors you are pushing to progress don't have to stick around, they can just pick up and move. If you clean up your house, you didn't really clean up the problem, you just moved it somewhere else, making the problem worse.
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- throw0101a 6y agoThink global, act local: * https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/decarbonization-think-globally-act https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/decarbonization-think-glob...