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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by solarkraft on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:04PM (#20417518)
This does not make climate change less of an issue. We're at an important turning point and the developed nations just can't stop it alone.

Of course they should be doing way, way more and support ways of cleaner development financially.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by mindfulplay on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:32PM (#20417628)
Every single one of these new fangled issues was not an issue thirty years ago in the US. So...

What makes the West the arbiter of such issues for other countries?

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by rorykoehler on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:35PM (#20417907)
This isn't about east and west it's about today and the past. In fact if you look at the air pollution levels in New York and Chicago in the 70s they were very high and something was done about them. Currently developed nations had the advantage of being able to externalise the environmental cost of pollution without it affecting them as much immediately during development. Developing nations today don't have that luxury. Time is running out.
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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by bildung on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:31AM (#20419605)
> This does not make climate change less of an issue. We're at an important turning point and the developed nations just can't stop it alone.

India really isn't much of an issue on that front. The 1.3 billion people living in India produce less than half the greenhouse gas emission of the USA, which has less than 1/4 of India's population.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by rorykoehler on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:17AM (#20420442)
We all know the US is the worst offender for greenhouse gases but there's more to pollution than global warming.
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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by bildung on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:44AM (#20420646)
Absolutely! My response was specifically adressing the climate change aspect, not pollution in general.
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