Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record by piva00 on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:27PM (#49426717)

The EU has more people than the USA but emits 1/3 of the USA's, what's the exceptionalist excuse for that?

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Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record by drnick1 on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:14PM (#49427567)

> what's the exceptionalist excuse for that?

What is Europe's excuse for having such low wages and output despite having more people?

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Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record by piva00 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:11AM (#49429684)

Did I offend you by asking a question?

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Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record by phartenfeller on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:22AM (#49430195)

We have a meltdown, maybe we can extract clean energy from here

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Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record by toddy_flogsit on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:29PM (#49426738)

well, yes we're overfed and over-commercialized. But we also vastly out build, grow and produce Europe. (and you have more people)

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Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record by piva00 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:23AM (#49431050)

If using simple metrics like GDP growth, I'm more in the camp of Paul Krugman's argument[0] that such comparisons with simple naïve metrics are insufficient to analyse it.

I agree the USA has grown more steadily than the EU and the American software/tech industries have a leg up but the devil is in the details.

I travel a lot for work to the USA and I do not experience what this GDP growth has brought to the US in the past 10-15 years: infrastructure in general is worse (worse airports, worse roads, etc.), urban life is worse, rural life is worse, quality of food is worse.

[0] https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-america-whos-rea...

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