Re:China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
by josephcsible on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:30AM
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> The fact that China and other developing nations know this but are still willing to take the incoming damage just shows how much it sucks to be a undeveloped country.
No, all it shows is how selfish China is. It's a textbook tragedy of the commons. They get all the benefit of polluting but make us take on most of the cost. If there were somehow a way to make it so that all of China's pollution affected only China, they'd be taking it much more seriously, developed or undeveloped.
Re:China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
by czzr on Saturday May 08, 2021 @12:01PM
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Much of China’s pollution is from industries that the West outsourced, and which support western consumption today. So it’s certainly not as simple as China being selfish.
No, all it shows is how selfish China is. It's a textbook tragedy of the commons. They get all the benefit of polluting but make us take on most of the cost. If there were somehow a way to make it so that all of China's pollution affected only China, they'd be taking it much more seriously, developed or undeveloped.