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The West has gone through widespread deindustrialization in the past 50 years, that was the biggest reason for localized decreased emissions (i.e. they were sim

• qwytw 5y ago
  So western countries should have sent their armies to prevent developing countries from building factories and power plants? Refused to trade with them? Given the economic and social incentives at the time (and to a large extend currently) simply reducing energy usage was not really feasible. It's not at all reasonable (and in my opinion largely unethical) to expect people to sacrifice their wellbeing due to some theoretical global threat they hardly knew anything about at the time.