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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by gardaani on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:03AM (#18183713)
Bhutan is a great example how countries could look like. It is the only carbon-negative country in the world and they measure Gross National Happiness instead of Gross Domestic Product.

https://www.ecowatch.com/this-country-isnt-just-carbon-neutr...

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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by generalpf on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:29AM (#18184184)
Bhutan achieves this by importing most of what they use from countries that produce the carbon. Obviously this doesn't scale.
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by mikeash on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:46AM (#18185345)
I'd really hope that a poor, primarily agricultural country is not actually a great example of what this could look like.
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by patrickg_zill on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:09AM (#18183739)
Are you aware of this country's recent past ethnic cleansing...?
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by adrianN on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:37AM (#18183849)
How is that related to their carbon policies?
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by nkurz on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @09:43AM (#18184739)
It's probably not relevant to their carbon policy, but it's a valid qualifier to the first sentence which proposes Bhutan an otherwise unqualified "great example".
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by bjowen on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:16AM (#18185646)
It is probably relevant to the success in implementing the policy. States that brutalise segments of their populations tend to have an easier time convincing the others to fall in line.
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by patrickg_zill on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:40AM (#18185898)
It seems strange to praise them for their Happiness quotient when they may well have arrived at that by shall we say, unsavory methods.
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