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Chinese rise in emissions is because of Western manufacturing. Russian rise in emissions is because of Western European need for heating. If we stop outsourci
by keewee7 5y ago
Chinese rise in emissions is because of Western manufacturing.
Russian rise in emissions is because of Western European need for heating.
If we stop outsourcing manufacturing to China and stop buying gas from Russia their emissions will also fall.
But India and Africa are significantly poorer than China and Russia.
India and Africa should be allowed to emit CO2 for the next two decades or they will remain poor forever.
- thehappypm 5y agoWait. Are you saying that Russian gas, combusted in the EU, counts towards Russia's CO2 output? that makes zero sense.
- keewee7 5y agoThe natural gas industry in Russia emits a lot of CO2 by itself. Generally the fossil fuel industry is one of the largest emitters if CO2 by itself. That is why countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia are among the top CO2 emitters in the world.
- hnmullany 5y agoChinese emissions are primarily because of a choice to exploit its thermal coal reserves for power generation instead of going nuclear. Probably was cheaper and faster to go that way - but it was definitely a choice.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoAs far as I can tell from an American perspective, the US has always done what was cheapest and fastest, and we still do. I sure wouldn’t expect China to do anything different.
- liuliu 5y agoChina only recently has a 3G reactor design that is 100% Chinese IP. The state-owned enterprise that handles nuclear reactor construction is on the U.S. entity list.
- yissp 5y agoWould having to curb CO2 emissions stunt Indian / African economic development more than the effects of climate change will? Those two areas are particularly vulnerable to the worst of the impacts as I understand it (extreme heat, food supply disruption, etc.)
- keewee7 5y agoPoverty and hunger is killing more people in India and Africa than extreme weather.
- wutbrodo 5y agoPoverty and hunger are downstream of climate shocks, not separate from it. Drought and other extreme weather events are powerful historical causes of war and famine. The GP question is whether that dynamic is canceled out by the economic benefits of polluting energy technologies.