Been reading through my usual posts and this thought popped up in my head. Did a bit of searching and now I'm curious what y'all's analysis is on this. And how potentially the CCP will respond to climate related consequences in the coming decades since they are becoming an increasingly massive superpower and their actions will have global impacts for the rest of the world.
Oh, then I guess it would be silly to blame historical emmission totals on the US and EU then, because they used to be making most of the exported manufactured goods in the past, right?
Should we be blaming the, at the time, developing countries that imported all those goods and capital, for past CO2?
Also....the end consumer is divorced from the pollution.
Not literally, but in the sense that this is an externality, it is functionally exporting pollution, made easier by extreme physical distance.
Also temporally divorced from global warming and the disasters it will bring, the inevitable, moderately time delayed result of long term consumerism.
I blame everybody.
Spidermans pointing at each other.
where do you think euro-manufactured goods were going in the 19th-20th centuries? China? the country whose soldiers were still using swords in the 1910s?
"i blame everybody" read: i am wholly ignorant of imperialism
I didn't know the historical emissions from the US and EU were going to the third world. All those factories in London pumping out pollution to make goods to send to the Congo and Kazakhstan.
They polluted themselves largely for themselves, now they're exporting the pollution elsewhere... also for themselves.
But have you considered this informative graph?