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Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by azernik on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:53PM (#14466540)
That's where you and I disagree. The different requirements laid on developing vs. developed countries are in my opinion a feature, not a bug. Demanding from India and and Sub-Saharan Africa to remain pre-industrial nations while we get to keep polluting at a much higher per-capita rate is not in any sense a "level playing field" - it's grandfathering in the advantage we currently gain by polluting more.
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Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by tropo on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:43PM (#14466811)
Yes, it would be "grandfathering in the advantage we currently gain". You don't want that advantage? Are you tired of winning?

Trump said: "We gonna win so much you may even get tired of winning and you'll say please, please Mr. president, It's too much winning! We can't take it anymore!"

Look, it was a joke. You're expected to like winning.

I suppose you could move elsewhere on the non-level playing field if you actually don't like winning. You'd have to make some major lifestyle changes. I bet you do like winning.

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Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by atonse on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:09PM (#14466901)
Except in this case you aren't winning. We're all losing. The climate isn't just going to be nice on developed nations 20 years from now. It's going to be bad for all nations because we didn't act.

We're all losing. Already.

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Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by azernik on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:11PM (#14466910)
You work so hard on "winning" that you push much more poor and desperate people to the breaking point, you're going to have problems.
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