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Re:Developing nations blast $300B COP29 climate deal as insu... by exe34 on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:36AM (#42226755)
> they also use much more goods manufactured from places like India and China

since the argument seems to be that rich countries are using China and India to produce the co2, could these two countries simply stop making the tat that we import from them? If that will tank their economy, then wouldn't us stopping the imports of tat also tank their economy?

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Re:Developing nations blast $300B COP29 climate deal as insu... by maccard on Sunday November 24, 2024 @05:24AM (#42227124)
It will tank their economies, which is why we’re paying them, basically,
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Re:Developing nations blast $300B COP29 climate deal as insu... by exe34 on Sunday November 24, 2024 @06:28AM (#42227345)
what will happen is that we'll pay them and they will simply sell their labour to whoever else will buy it and still burn up the same resources/cause pollution/realease co2. It's like when we pay poachers not to kill elephants - they take the money and still sell the tusks.
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