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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by jl6 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:01AM (#28097617)
Also note that much of the pollution in India and China is created in the process of manufacturing goods which are then exported to the west, so it’s not like you and I have no influence at all.
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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by belly_joe on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:31AM (#28098113)
Most of the growth in Chinese carbon emissions (>90%) is due to growth Chinese consumption, not exports.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china

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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by patricius on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:17AM (#28097672)
Right. We could choose not to buy from them, helping them stay in poverty. That's always an option.
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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by loa_in_ on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:32AM (#28097758)
Currently Dollars only serve the Chinese government as a way to put pressure on the competition (USA). They are still eating their own food and living in their own technology based buildings built from their local resources by their local workforce. America doesn't help keep Chinese from poverty, because China isn't incapable of it in the first place. If anything, the political pressures just created perverse incentives there.
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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by samatman on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:23AM (#28098071)
That's not even remotely true.

China isn't self-sufficient in calories, be they fuel or food. If they don't get dollars for foreign trade, they starve in the dark.

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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by loa_in_ on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:38AM (#28097798)
Correction: Dollars only serve the Chinese government as a way to put pressure on the competition, and means to buy microelectronics
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Re:World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster th... by pantalaimon on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:33AM (#28097765)
Not buying new stuff so often would be a start.
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