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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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