Re:Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
by SamReidHughes on Saturday September 03, 2016 @01:04PM
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You're pretending there is no a trade-off here, and that just isn't true.
Re:Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
by anexprogrammer on Saturday September 03, 2016 @01:38PM
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Not at all. Hence my feeling the West should be assisting in making this happen - it's as much in our interests too after all.
Re:Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
by SamReidHughes on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:07PM
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You can't "do it a bit better" without human sacrifice today. At any level of first world assistance, that trade-off exists.
It is in the interests of Indians, as well as the rest of the globe, to try and short-cut past a lot of development that went on in the first world - precisely to avoid the horrific pollution that resulted from our lack of knowledge or greed. The first world should be assisting this.
By avoiding a lot of the smoke-stack development that the West went through they'd end up in a better overall place.
Meanwhile developing nations need to stop accepting our old crap (ships for scrapping, old TVs, stuff collected via roadside "recycling" such as UK cardboard) for disassembly on beaches. The sooner the First World owns the whole problem, the better.