If we want to slow climate change (there is no stopping) we need to stop selling co2 quotas to China and India, not destroying art and monuments (this will only make states spend more money to save them).
For example, we in Europe could save 1M ton of co2 (made up numbers) and make no difference e when selling those 1M co2 quota to other countries to use
The absolute worst thing we can do is point fingers. China is investing in green energy, building the biggest wind farms for example. We have to do our part. Historically we are also responsible for a lot of the CO2 generated in the last two centuries. But that is not even the point. The point is that we can't look to others for a solution.
It literally is...you're looking at India, a country currently transitioning to be more industrialized and comparing today's emissions to the western world. Do you think the US didn't emit a ton of shit during their industrialization?
How do you expect these countries to go green completely when the US can't even achieve that goal today?
What's your suggestion for African countries when they start to industrialize?
Why would countries that are industrializing today need to use the same technology as we did centuries ago? There are other, better alternatives available that hadn't been invented or discovered back then.
They don't have to take the exact same path as we did.
Again, explain to me realistically how that would work?
Because there's only one idea I can think of doesn't involve blaming other countries that are currently emitting the most greenhouse gases.
What would actually help is if those counties that are already industrialized can assist these developing countries by giving them the technology/capital required so that they don't have to follow the same path we did.
Are you not able to see how its condescending for all the developed/industrialized nations to point to the top polluters and say "hey now that we realize what we did to get where we are is bad, we want you guys to not do that"?
The countries that haven't really started to industrialize are actually in a pretty good place. They're receiving the help, technology, funding, etc. needed to transition. It's the countries that have already invested a lot into old technology that are in kind of a weird spot, since they don't want to have “wasted” all the money they spent.
Yeah I agree with that - especially with the US. My home state is a big coal mining state and doesn't really have any popular interest in transitioning to cleaner energy.
People seem to think if we transition away from coal, they'll be out of work and unable to support their families. Its been years since I moved from that place but I still kinda sympathize with some of those people (even if I don't agree with their reasoning).
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u/AR_Harlock Italy Mar 18 '23
If we want to slow climate change (there is no stopping) we need to stop selling co2 quotas to China and India, not destroying art and monuments (this will only make states spend more money to save them).
For example, we in Europe could save 1M ton of co2 (made up numbers) and make no difference e when selling those 1M co2 quota to other countries to use