Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
by hcarvalhoalves on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:13PM
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If they still manage less CO per capita w/ their exports plus internal market, that weakens the argument that emissions control is primarily a 3rd world responsibility.
That's quite outdated; there's a huge internal market in China, India, etc, and plenty of trade between the non-"1st world" countries. In fact, the US did have an initiative to reduce consumption from there (in the form of tariffs) and it didn't impact their economy much.
Just as an example, China now has about as many cars as the US. And the market there keeps growing, whereas the US has mostly plateaued.