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What a lazy and irrelevant point. Social scientists won't shift the blame to Africa and Asia because their energy intensity is still a tiny fraction of the deve
by billiam 5y ago
What a lazy and irrelevant point. Social scientists won't shift the blame to Africa and Asia because their energy intensity is still a tiny fraction of the developed world, and unless and until we deal with energy intensity, we don't have political authority to dictate terms to the rest of the world.
- josephcsible 5y ago> Social scientists won't shift the blame to Africa and Asia because their energy intensity is still a tiny fraction of the developed world China is in Asia.
- Zababa 5y agoChina pollutes more than the US, the EU and Canada combined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di.... The amount of resources on Earth is limited, and doesn't increase with the population. Pollution by capita is irrelevant. I'll also let you take a look at energy intensity and see if Africa and Asia are so good at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity_by_country. China is worse than the USA, India is worse than France. What exactly do we have to deal with? And something else, Asia consumes the most energy in the world by far: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-consumption-by-region https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-consumptio.... At some point you have to face reality, even if you don't like it.