Next time you encounter someone who thinks that economic growth intrinsically means doing more damage to the environment, show them this graph.pic.twitter.com/71AzjMlCnR
China exported us the goods we needed. We exported the CO2 required to make those goods cheaply to China. That’s one major reason why the developed world has seen co2 emissions fall.
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The graph PG posted is adjusted for CO2 due to imports and exports.
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I didn’t see that but I am still enormously skeptical about that. Depends on how they “adjust”. Doesn’t seem like a trivial thing to do when China’s coal power plants are powering the machines making the sub components, components, and final products.
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always been argument from brazil: why do we need to curtail on our growth path when DMs didnt
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If I were Brazil, I’d be inclined to tell the developed world to go fuck itself if they were telling me I could make CO2. That said, it’s not CO2 emissions that seems to be holding Brazil back. Many other bigger problems.
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So yeah, what you wrote is right but kind of misleading.
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