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Re:EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end ... by oblio on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:04PM (#25387952)
China is a country where many people are still living in mud huts or close to it.

If they manage to lift those hundreds of millions of people out of poverty AND "just" keep their emissions constant, I consider that as a win for humanity.

Everyone else, especially in developed countries, needs to bring their per capita emissions radically down.

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Re:EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end ... by posix_me_less on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:48PM (#25388473)
> I consider that as a win for humanity.

Is it though? How do we people of the Earth now win if it is 2100 and there is 2x more of us and the emissions are the same?

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Re:EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end ... by oblio on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:57PM (#25389284)
Because I don't actually think it will work that way. Humans are generally rational and non-starving people even more so. China sees itself as an eternal kingdom, I doubt they plan to boil themselves in this newfound prosperity.
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Re:EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end ... by posix_me_less on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:22AM (#25397572)
Did anybody plan to breathe polluted air and experience climate change? The more people there is, the harder the impact on the environment.
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Re:EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end ... by oblio on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:13AM (#25398682)
China's population has stabilized and is predicted to decrease rather significantly over this century.
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