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I think China - the world's biggest polluter - will take offense at being called a "western-style society".. In fact Western societies are the only ones seeing
by copx 3y ago
I think China - the world's biggest polluter - will take offense at being called a "western-style society"..
In fact Western societies are the only ones seeing the need for radical climate change prevention measures. The Asians, Indians, Latinos, Muslims, and Africans all happily fire up one coal power plant after the other.
- latchkey 3y ago> I think China - the world's biggest polluter - will take offense at being called a "western-style society".. Tianducheng disagrees with you.
- seoulmetro 3y agoThey might, but that doesn't change the fact that Western-style societies basically exist in the East now. Cars, sky scrapers, western medicine, suits. The 1800s and 1900s basically converted us all to a Western colonies.
- kergonath 3y agoTalking about absolute emissions when comparing countries with massive population differences is disingenuous. China is bad, but Europe and the US are worse. Shutting down discussions on what we should do here by saying that it’s bad over there is also disingenuous.