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>a lot if it Physical goods pretty small slice of pie considering construction/building operations, transportation and heavy industries. Reality is 7B people i
by dirtyid 3y ago
>a lot if it
Physical goods pretty small slice of pie considering construction/building operations, transportation and heavy industries. Reality is 7B people in poor countries emissions will massively explode as they develop. Having a few billion slightly more durable refrigerators is relatively minor consideration to the billions tons of concrete that's going to be poured for new infra. There aren't any international body nor transnational coersive policies that's going to make poor shift away from budget CO2 intense methods/goods. Growing developing countries aren't going to wait to buy more expensive durable goods if it improves their QoL, they'll get that budget AC for relief as soon as they can afford it. Which leaves subsidies/funding, but no one (especially the west) going to fund developing world infra on scale that matters when infra at home sucks. Consumer goods producers aren't going to abandon emerging markets, and TBH it's more important for poor people to increase consumption and improve QoL sooner than not. Civilization better off when it's +5 warm but everyone has AC, than when it's +2 warm but only some have AC. Unless +5 warm spirals us into extinction, at which it's survival of fittest/geographic luckiest.