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
Qatar emits more than twice as much, it's on them to solve climate change /sarcasm
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It's really cute how you keep deflecting to Qatar instead of dealing with how absurdly high American emissions are by either standard
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Your bad argument about per capita emissions, if carried through to its logical conclusion, would conclude that Qatar is the biggest problem, which is patently dumb. But once you admit total emissions are the problem, you realize China is the biggest problem, game over.
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The amazing thing about Neoliberism is how capital has free movement and everything is interconnected until someone has to deal with externalities at which point a geologic scale crisis driven by the industrialization of the West has to be solved by China alone
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Not China alone. But China is absolutely indispensable. If we reduce emissions and they do not, we die. Simple as that.
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