I've written at length about the way climate change disproportionately affects POC. In the US, for example:http://grist.org/justice/money-doesnt-matter-white-people-breathe-cleaner-air/ …
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Internationally, climate change is already devastating small island states, with no recourse for justice:http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-change-is-forcing-people-to-migrate-and-the-world-doesnt-have-a-plan-to-handle-it/ …
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Here's more on migration, indigeneity, and climate change. You don't even have to read anything, just watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB2TQqqMWkI …
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Here's one more, with the same climate debt framing:https://www.thenation.com/article/typhoon-haiyan-global-poor-bear-deadly-brunt-climate-change/ …
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But implicit in your response,
@icocoboco, is this idea that China is the great big polluter. Let's take a critical look at this myth. -
For starters, China and Chinese people are typically cast as a national security threat. This goes back to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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The idea that China is the big bad polluter is inextricably tied to fear of the other. We shouldn't ignore that when we talk about climate.
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And, when it comes to numbers, we need to consider who is and isn't counted when it comes to carbon emissions. Because a lot isn't counted.
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Who's a bigger polluter: China or the Pentagon? Do we have hard numbers for the Pentagon's carbon emissions? In the past and/or the present?
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Has any international or even national conversation about climate change seriously considered the Pentagon's emissions? Nope.
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And let's take China on its own. Yes, it emits a lot of carbon. Why? Because we, the United States, have outsourced our pollution there.
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I'm typing this on a Logitch keyboard, made in China. Connected to a MacBook, made in China. This required a lot of carbon emissions.
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If we were fair, we'd count emissions from the manufacture of goods we consume as our emissions, not China's. But we're not exactly fair.
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