wow, what a scam.
If it isn’t obvious by then ....
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I like this analogy: Much of the environmental movement is a like a watermelon. Green on the outside, red on the inside.
At the same time, China has no problem making money from the Developed countries ill gotten wealth. |
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Liberal fascism indeed!
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there’s no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
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from Rush The Trees |
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Now, you don’t even have to be particularly bright to figure that one out. China, perhaps the biggest net polluter on the planet, is a victim because its repressive regime and Maoist politics hindered economic growth while other economies were streaking ahead of it.
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China is a larger net polluter because the U. S. and Europe have been exporting their manufacturing, which tends to be more polluting than service industries, to China for the last quarter century. I don’t see either China or the West as victims or culprits in this. All parties have been making the shrewdest economic moves they could under the circumstances although I tend to think that China has played their economic hand a little more shrewdly than we have.
Since abandoning Maoism, again about a quarter century ago, China’s economy has grown enormously and the amount of pollution it’s created has grown hand-in-hand with that economic growth for the reasons I mentioned above.
China’s ruling regime is unquestionably among the world’s most oppressive, corrupt, and downright awful. But I don’t see the connection between that and the point you’re trying to make. Could you flesh it out a little for me?
The underlying flaw in the Chinese argument is that it presumes a right to pollute. Or because the ball got rolling in the West, it’s up to the West to correct the problem.
A fundamental principle of optimization theory is that your best pick for optimization is where there’s something to optimize. That means in the United States, the greatest per capita polluter, and in China, the largest and fastest growing polluter. |
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Dave Schuler
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"A fundamental principle of optimization theory is that your best pick for optimization is where there’s something to optimize. That means in the United States, the greatest per capita polluter"
There is another fundamental principle about diminishing returns. The US has already done the relatively easy and cheap things that can be done to combat pollution. China hasn’t, which is why they have worse smog and pollution than we or the Europeans do. Another of the principles of optimization theory is constraints. US corporations and taxpayers are not going to provide unlimited resources to remove the last 0.01% of pollution from every source. |
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If it is abandoned, he warned, "people will just disperse and go their own ways and do their own things." Heaven forfend! |
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How can nations be fighting over pollution controls? Wasn’t last year’s "Peace" prize given on this basis? Everything should be OK now! |
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