Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead...
by ipaddr on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:18PM
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China produces much for the world. Offshoring production to them has put them in a unique position where they produce much of the world's greenhouse gases.
Population size doesn't matter.
China produces 5 times more than India. More than double the US at similiar economic levels.
China is the problem. China is the solution.
China produces more greenhouse gases than all developed nations combined.
Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead...
by throwaway210222 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:39AM
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> China is the problem. China is the solution.
Then I assume the west will ensure China has access to any and all technology that they decide they need, when they need it, how they need it, to reduce their carbon footprint.
Because that is what it is going to take.
Fine, I'll bite. Presume for a second that the partitioning of India didn't end with Pakistan and Bangladesh, but that the entire sub-continent split into 15 odd countries each with the population of Mexico.
Would you still be demanding that just these 15 countries carry the disproportionate burden of solving climate change?
You wouldn't, because is would be painfully, obviously dumb to ignore other similar sized groups of countries (Europe, SE asia, etc.)
India and China obviously emit more, because they are - uniquely - single countries with continent sized populations.
They don't suddenly earn some moral burden for that in an atmosphere that is without borders.