1/Here is a thread about climate change that's going to make a lot of people mad. Basically, America, on its own, has a LOT power to stop climate change than almost anyone admits.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-14/china-is-the-climate-change-battleground …
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2/China now emits far more CO2 than the U.S. It emits almost as much as Europe and the U.S. combined.pic.twitter.com/oRqWN4o8OS
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3/In fact, even this huge disparity dramatically understates the degree to which China is in the driver's seat of climate change. China, being still much poorer than us, has much more room to grow its economy. Hence, the emissions gap will only grow larger.pic.twitter.com/01PggZMTcY
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4/This leads to an uncomfortable but unavoidable fact: The battle to halt climate change will be won or lost in China. America's power - and thus, the power of American politicians, activists, businesses, etc. - to save the planet from climate catastrophe is very marginal.
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The battle to halt climate change was lost in the 1980ies, mostly in the US. That is when we passed the crucial tipping points that now lead to the unstoppable melting of the poles. Perhaps we locked on this trajectory with the industrial revolution; we have very little agency.
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US oil companies (and probably deciders in US politics) fully knew in the 1970ies and 1980ies where we are headed. It must have been terrifying for the people who made the nominal decisions to carry on anyway.
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