10/Another way we Americans try to preserve the illusion of control is by claiming that China will follow our lead on emissions - that if we cut emissions unilaterally, they'd follow suit. Of course, we've ALREADY cut emissions. Nobody followed our lead.
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I dunno. Of course it's not "control" - but for example, the solar boom was arguably kickstarted by very generous German subsidies before going global (and firing up China's solar industry).
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I'm not saying it's always easy or straightforward, but I do think there is still quite some significant room of manœuvre that rich countries have for getting low carb tech off the ground.
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Perhaps instead of control, call it (still) significant leverage.
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