Re:We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of clima...
by labawi on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:12PM
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> .. good track record for creating prosperity.
Please don't forget to qualify you mean economic prosperity. It's a wholly different matter than happiness, health etc. The correlation is positive (I guess) but far from 100%.
French track record is not bad, but I would still hesitate to call it good. Going by [1], they haven't notably decreased their emissions since 2011, they are worse than Sweden and Switzerland, and if poorer countries follow, it's still the kind of emissions that take us into wild climate territory with mass migrations, unrest and I would hope not war.
Good for some inspiration, better than my country, but far from enough.
Please don't forget to qualify you mean economic prosperity. It's a wholly different matter than happiness, health etc. The correlation is positive (I guess) but far from 100%.
French track record is not bad, but I would still hesitate to call it good. Going by [1], they haven't notably decreased their emissions since 2011, they are worse than Sweden and Switzerland, and if poorer countries follow, it's still the kind of emissions that take us into wild climate territory with mass migrations, unrest and I would hope not war.
Good for some inspiration, better than my country, but far from enough.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...