That’s right, I just imagined walking into a public library and borrowing four books today. And there’s no way that it would have cost 95% of the population of any country a year’s wages to get much worse books in any pre-capitalist system We’re better off. Objective fact.
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There's two problems with the "China is the largest emmiter of CO2" thing, one is that China literally has 20% more people than the US and the EU combined and it's per capita emissions are less than half of the those of the US even before you consider that 20% of those emissions
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Sadly, the climate doesn't care about per capita emissions. Qatar has over twice the per capita emissions of the U.S., yet no one thinks that Qatar can even put a dent in climate change on its own. Only total matters, unfortunately.
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Look if, for example, a single person was emitting 40% of the world's CO2 this argument becomes completely absurd. It matters who emits the most greenhouse gases because bringing their levels of emissions in line with the rest of the world is the fastest way to reduce emissions
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Not necessarily. Often that just makes coal and oil cheaper on the world market, allowing other countries to buy and burn more of it, so that their emissions replace the emissions reductions of the other countries.
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So you agree then that the climate change is inherently driven by market forces and that any solution requires their abolition?
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If you could establish a benevolent world government, sure, it could solve the problem.
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But, like, I don't think that's actually possible.
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I kinda suspected something similar, but I sometimes like to make minor concessions wherever I can in these kinds of arguments to show people that I’m operating in good faith and to remind them that it’s a good thing to be open-minded and receptive.
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