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> China and India are among one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas. There is no policy that can change that fact. Fine, I'll bite. Presume for a sec
by throwaway210222 5y ago
> China and India are among one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas. There is no policy that can change that fact.
Fine, I'll bite. Presume for a second that the partitioning of India didn't end with Pakistan and Bangladesh, but that the entire sub-continent split into 15 odd countries each with the population of Mexico.
Would you still be demanding that just these 15 countries carry the disproportionate burden of solving climate change?
You wouldn't, because is would be painfully, obviously dumb to ignore other similar sized groups of countries (Europe, SE asia, etc.)
India and China obviously emit more, because they are - uniquely - single countries with continent sized populations.
They don't suddenly earn some moral burden for that in an atmosphere that is without borders.
- ipaddr 5y agoChina produces much for the world. Offshoring production to them has put them in a unique position where they produce much of the world's greenhouse gases. Population size doesn't matter. China produces 5 times more than India. More than double the US at similiar economic levels. China is the problem. China is the solution. China produces more greenhouse gases than all developed nations combined.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> China is the problem. China is the solution. Then I assume the west will ensure China has access to any and all technology that they decide they need, when they need it, how they need it, to reduce their carbon footprint. Because that is what it is going to take.