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Thank you. Climate change is a diplomacy issue, nothing the west is going to do in the next 50 years will make a difference with what’s going on in china and el
by zpeti 3y ago
Thank you. Climate change is a diplomacy issue, nothing the west is going to do in the next 50 years will make a difference with what’s going on in china and elsewhere.
So either you are a realist about this problem, and you admit that either it’s war with many countries to solve this issue, or it won’t be solved (because they won’t stop economic growth for carbon emissions). Possible alternatives are technology.
But guilt tripping the west and stopping people eating steak will. Not. Make. A. Difference.
- SpacePortKnight 3y agoUSA emits almost 8 times more C02 when compared to India per capita. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita In that sense India would need to be 10B+ people to poluate as much as US / west does.
- pentae 3y agoAgain these studies don't take into account things like burning, air pollution, waterways pollution, nor trees per capita in India vs North America. If you've got enough trees per person to offset their carbon use, then it doesn't matter how much co2 they emit.
- zpeti 3y agoExcept per capita co2 emissions AND total emissions have been falling in the USA. China now emits more co2 than europe and USA combined. And this is NOT because of exports to the west, those are now also falling yet co2 emissions are still climbing. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=USA~CHN~IND https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-... This is what I mean. Just these two countries like india and china are emitting so much CO2, that any reduction in emissions by the west by not eating steak just won't matter. Either you stop china doing this (good luck!) or think of another solution.