6/The first way we Americans try to preserve the illusion of control is by bringing up moral arguments. We note that we emitted more carbon than China throughout history, and that our per capita emissions are higher. But of course the climate cares nothing for morality.
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17/It probably also includes other, less friendly and positive incentives.pic.twitter.com/rVbNtSW9a3
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18/But the horrible truth is, even all of these incentives probably have only a marginal ability to sway China's decisions. Like it or not, the future of our planet is in the hands of some folks in Beijing. (end)
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NUCLEAR ENERGY. It is the only scalable, reliable source of CO2-free electricity. Where do people think solar panels and wind turbines come from? Dirty mines and toxic factories. Even switching to CO2-free electricity will only solve 1/3 of the problem, still.
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We would then have to switch vehicles to electricity, requiring even MORE electricty. Nuclear is essential to this. But there really is nothing we can do. It is too late. Look at the numbers. Any chance we had died with the death of the nuclear power industry 30 years ago.
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Paying them is not a good idea - look what happened with Clean Development Mechanism money, they took it and ran
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I don't think they are amenable to such encouragement. The folks in Beijing are unapologetic about their expansion project. They mean to come out ahead and they don't have a naysaying fifth column encysted in their intelligentsia. US has to get back on top by leading innovation.
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For what I see China has already taken the lead in developing and implementing renewable energy technology, especially since US policy is now in retreat in that regard.
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The US is probably not in the best position to pull this kind of thing off. If you d have some interesting green tech, might be worth it to start using them first.pic.twitter.com/Vl5HXswkF3
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I see you're reasoning, need to digest
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You had some kind of story Noah........ I am loosing you now
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We should at first place provide them with nuclear plants. It's the most effective way to combine growth and decarbonization.
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Stupid anti-science Luddite environmentalists helped kill off our nuclear industry, so China is actually technologically ahead of us with nuclear energy production.
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Dunno where you from, but I have the feeling that the oil Corp and reaganism are perfect suspects too. And I meant even to help and subsidise China in order to speed up the rate of building. However, this would be refused bc of their nationalism.
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China’s margins have been under pressure from wage inflation and now tariffs. What incentive would they have to decarbonize and further narrow their margins?
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