TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal

Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by whoevercares on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:31PM (#24024063)

Does comparing the total always make sense? How about we take the average? Twice the amount means each Chinese person emit about 1/5 greenhouse of an American does. Man are created equal and Chinese people have the equal right to emit for their own prosperity

Reminds me of some downplay of China’s progress by looking at averages

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by toomuchtodo on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:34PM (#24024079)

Prosperity is not a right. Past emissions by some do not create future emissions allowances for others. We should all be held accountable for future emissions, as the climate cares little for equality concerns.

With that said, it’s entirely feasible to transition faster to not needing to emit carbon to raise or maintain quality of life. As I mention above, everyone should be accountable for that.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:57PM (#24026213)

Past emissions allowed countries to build wealth, and if wealthy countriss are failing to clean uo their act, why do you wxpect poorer countries like India or Vietbam to make a sacrafice?

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by whoevercares on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:42PM (#24024139)

> prosperity is not right

If we directly translate this to Chinese, the statement doesn’t make any sense. Is “pursuing prosperity” a right?

Looks like between the two cultures there might be quite a diverge Of the definition of “right”

Otherwise though I agree with what you said and China probably has been making a good progress already. Believe it or not, low Carbon life style is promoted by the official media

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