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There's very little to do in Europe. South Korea, Iran, Thailand, Egypt or South Africa e.g. put out significantly more CO2 than say the UK or France (which are
by veqq 1mo ago
There's very little to do in Europe. South Korea, Iran, Thailand, Egypt or South Africa e.g. put out significantly more CO2 than say the UK or France (which are towards the top). India and China are higher than the whole EU and are only continuing to pollute more as their standards of living improve. Essentially the only way to stop it is to keep the 3rd world impoverished (in Africa, people often argue that green energy is a Western conspiracy to keep them down). Western economies have already largely stagnated and most of Europe's pollution's fallen to lower per capita than China, let alone South Korea or Russia or... Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and such.
Pro-nuclear efforts are the best hope we have: generate enough electricity and we can scrape the atmosphere clean
- chneu 1mo agoTheir emissions are generally higher because they produce the goods other nations buy. This entire mentality of "but them" is bad.
- card_zero 1mo agoThe mentality of "it's our fault because they emit to sell to us" is bad. Who is in control of what they do?
- jurgenburgen 1mo ago> There's very little to do in Europe. Plenty to do. We don’t have oil or natural gas so relying on fossil fuel to power our economy is stupid.
- dgellow 1mo agoEurope does have oil and gas (Russia, Norway). But your overall point stands
- jurgenburgen 1mo agoTechnically true but kind of irrelevant in practice when we’re in a lukewarm war with Russia.