So... this. I'll take the questions in good faith, and will try to answer them briefly.https://twitter.com/icocoboco/status/869938768148652032 …
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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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both historical/cumulative & per capita emissions from China & India well below Western levels, climate budget not been spent in the East
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Exactly my point. The habit of reducing carbon emi comes from individual US citizen taking initiative by decreasing reliance on fuel n coal
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apart from top ~8%, individuals don't impact emissions. intersectional organizing for structural community reinvestment may be only recourse
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America is one of the top 3 polluters /capita. The enforcement of climate accord globally is not going to change problems within USA
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