• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    It’s the best argument against those who say we don’t need to do anything about our emissions because China pollutes more. China can turn around and be green in a couple of years because it’s a dictatorship, can the western world do that? Fuck no.

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      1 month ago

      Now they’ll just change arguments - “China has reduced their emissions so much that now there’s less urgency for us to lower ours”. Heads I win, tails you lose.

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      1 month ago

      I’m not sure it’s a very effective argument, since China has not actually reduced its emissions yet and emits as much per capita (consumption based) as most European countries. There’s progress being made but we are a long, long fucking way from having fixed the problem, and that applies to China too

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        1 month ago

        You didn’t get the point, the day China decides to do it they’ll catch up and be ahead of European and North American countries in a couple of years, they’ll do in two years what will require them a decade or more.

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          No, I got the point, I’m just saying you won’t convince anyone with it until China has actually done something. And it is important that we convince people before that, because that’s precious time lost