> Even if CO2 was a problem the only way to fix it at this point is to keep the 2 billion people down that are striving for a much larger footprint.

Or, help them skip over the heavily polluting stages of that growth. We subsidize electric cars and solar installations in the US; helping developing nations do the same might go a ways.

Pollution is the real problem and it really feels like it has been given a back seat to the climate. Those Chinese factories are churning away for the same American corporations that lobby for the CO2 laws.