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Using only your topic heading since your first post stated something different… "Putting aside the debate about whether AGW is real or not, what is the solution to climate change?"
Reply..patience
Well that's a god point, our Climate Alarmists don't mind the Chinese ramping up their carbon emissions because they are good Communists.
Yeah the west has already decreased it's emissions greatly from a generation ago. the decision to give developing nations a pass on many of the restrictions is based on economic justice not environmental concerns, and if we're accepting AGW claims at face value, we should be beyond that point. The crisis itself doesn't care about economic justice.
For the purposes of this thread, AGW is real and it's reality goes unchallenged. What can we do to stop it, or slow it down? Or at least mitigate the effects of it? If climate change alarmists had their way completely, carte blanche to do whatever they want, what would they do?
Nothing. We already passed the point of no return.
If the Climate change Alarmists got their way we would have the Green New Deal.
What gets me about all this rubbish is that here in the states we are banning plastic bags, cups and drinking straws yet in half the developing countries in the world they dump their trash right into the ocean or into the nearby river that leads to the ocean.
America is doing a pretty good job of limiting our carbon and trash footprint but it is the rest of the world that needs to catch up. The main problem is of course that the planet has too many people on it.
America still is still higher in CO2 emissions per capita. I always thought it was kind of elitist that Americans would say the Chinese are polluting too much - their per capita emissions are lower. I don't blame the average Chinese person for wanting a car or a washer/dryer, don't we all want that? By the way, China is much further along than the US regarding some green technologies like electric cars.
Yeah the west has already decreased it's emissions greatly from a generation ago. the decision to give developing nations a pass on many of the restrictions is based on economic justice not environmental concerns, and if we're accepting AGW claims at face value, we should be beyond that point. The crisis itself doesn't care about economic justice.
Why don't we focus on reducing emissions here first? Makes no sense to punish a country like Kenya for building a coal power plant when a third of the country still has no electricity.
America still is still higher in CO2 emissions per capita. .
Dear Santa.....our neighbors have a bigger family than we do.....why do we have to stop putting arsenic in the water....when they get to put even more arsenic in the water
Why don't we focus on reducing emissions here first? Makes no sense to punish a country like Kenya for building a coal power plant when a third of the country still has no electricity.
Putting aside the fact that we've already reduced our emissions by a lot, AGW would affect the planet not just the region. Carbon dioxide would be pumped in to the global atmosphere so why does it matter where the coal power plant is built? Giving Kenya a pass is not an environmental consideration, and we're at a crisis point.
For the purposes of this thread, AGW is real and it's reality goes unchallenged. What can we do to stop it, or slow it down? Or at least mitigate the effects of it? If climate change alarmists had their way completely, carte blanche to do whatever they want, what would they do?
The last sentence is actually just gratuitous and opinionated. Your initial questions were clear in themselves.
Other than that, your question is a fair one.
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