Renewable technologies are gathering speed, putting the world within reach of falling greenhouse gas emissions. Climate experts say they "struggle to wrap their heads around" the sheer size, scale and speed of the current transition.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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