When I think of Global warming, I think of why we haven’t adopted Nuclear power - both fission and fusion, invested heavily in it, educated the public and never have to worry about electricity or energy use ever!? There should be zero concern about too-high-a-standard of living or having to meter electricity. We have almost limitless energy.

I feel like the world is going to keep complaining about energy usage in space if we become a space faring civilization. There are going to be space-environmentalists who will oppose fusion power.

I want to be clear - I want us to move to completely carbon free energy. Green house effect is not going to go away by chipping away at this or that. Some people in CA are telling me to not have kids so that we can keep the climate cool. Ridiculous. But no one dares to even suggest a Manhattan project with extreme urgency to solve this climate problem once in forever.

Wouldn’t it be more effective to chase China and India instead of squeezing the last few bits out of the rest of the world?

It’s difficult to encourage change when your own per-capita emissions are three times the global average and cumulative emissions are still double that of the nearest country. We need to change first.

https://ourworldindata.org/per-capita-co2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

Sure, but the idea of flying empty planes to maintain airport slots, while banning diesel or gas cars is giving me whiplash.

The USA is the 2nd largest emitter of CO2, on a per-capita basis it's almost double that of China.

Yeah but China’s population is just padding the numbers here. Its tail of “low-emitting citizens” is probably as high as the high-emitters.

China is as capable as the rest of the first world to enforce higher standards if not more.

I think that's because China (and India) haven't caught up to us yet (in terms of development, wealth, modernization).

I am sorry no.

You have plenty of first world countries with a fraction of the US and Canada's per capita emissions.

You need to look within. You guys are very factually just wasteful. The US and Canada are the ones that stand out like a sore thumb among the First world countries. [0]

Only countries like Qatar and Kuwait are more wasteful than the US and Canada in CO2 per capita emissions.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

Edit: added stats, it almost looks bimodal.

Australia too: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

Ok? So ignore the richest and most capable country?

It is going to increase the cost for USA as most of these pollution is for goods imported by US

>> China has some of the dirtiest air in the world, but a large share of the country's pollutants are generated during the manufacture of goods destined for countries like the United States, according to a new study.

>> about a fifth to a third of China's air pollutants—which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide—were associated with the production of goods for export, and that about a fifth of those amounts were linked to the production of goods for the United States.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140122-ma...

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/5/1736

What "last few bits"? Essentially no country is on track for the Paris targets with their emission reduction plans, and the actual implementations lag behind even further:

https://climateactiontracker.org

Only if your idea of fairness is five for me, and one for you.

India's entire CO2 output is less than half that of the United States, by the way, and its per-capita output is one-eighth. [1] (And gods only know much methane is leaking from American wells. We really aren't interested in counting that.) If you're going to put the squeeze on someone, it should be on the latter... But because we aren't going to squeeze ourselves, we deflect, deflect, deflect.

[1] Since it seems to get by on emitting one-eighth what we do, it sounds like there's plenty left to squeeze from our emissions.

>3000 flights

>squeezing the last few bits

tell that to .us companies that manufacture in China since 70s