Not extinct yet! Personally, I think we have a good shot at making it a ways further, if we proceed pragmatically and don’t get too caught up in vague ideologies.
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Replying to @yungneocon @Itmechr3 and
Noah posted a fascinating article earlier today about how China emits more carbon than US and Europe combined. U.S. military is relatively insignificant.
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Replying to @marthsshinedair @yungneocon and
Yeah but carbon intensive production is as direct product of FDI, which as Malm describes "relocates factories to situations where labor power is cheap and disciplined". The problem is that the second requirement for large-scale manufacturing is a large scale energy grid
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Replying to @yungneocon @Itmechr3 and
Thing about people trying to do national level pollution stats is that the wealthiest nations outsource a lot of their heavy industry elsewhere. 100 companies generate 71% of emissions. The US military is one of the biggest polluters. Facts
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Replying to @_CEEFAX_ @yungneocon and
About 20% of china’s carbon emissions are attributable to exports. The rest is domestic.
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People try to measure how much carbon is emitted by producing the goods and services that a nation *consumes*, rather than the goods and services it *produces*. They find that this lowers China's "true" emissions contribution by about 20%.
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