• Cyborganism
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    11 months ago

    How about western countries, especially the US and Canada, for moving all their manufacturing to China? Don’t they share responsibility?

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      11 months ago

      The responsibility is on the government to create policies that discourage or tax carbon emissions.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, but they’ve mostly been bought by lobbyists. Si there’s that.

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            11 months ago

            I think you might have misinterpreted the context. I was referring to Canada’s and the US government’s.

            Honestly, in comparison, China has been making much bigger efforts to curb emissions than all of North America combined. They’ve invested in public transit, planted more trees and heavily invested in an pushing EVs and many other steps to reduce their carbon emissions and even try to do more carbon capture.

            Sure, their power plants are powered by coal but they’re working on changing that as well.

            And that’s coming from someone who isn’t a particularly big fan of China. (Me)

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      10 months ago

      Not only moving manufacturing to China but being car centric and very polluting themselves. In fact they are in top 3 polluters.

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      11 months ago

      There are better things to blame Canada and the US for than the unfortunate loss of all their manufacturing industry.

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        11 months ago

        Oh of course. Like how Canada doesn’t want to phase out oil exploitation.

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          11 months ago

          Yes, like that. But much more than that. China, Canada, USA are all on the same page, with governments determined to appear to be doing something about climate change without actually doing anything about climate change.