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huh?
I'm saying that instead of beginning a war to protect US citizens from terrorists attacks, US can just make something useful for a fraction of the cost, e.g. develop and install 100% ecofriendly light.
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I'm saying that instead of beginning a war to protect US citizens from terrorists attacks, US can just make something useful for a fraction of the cost, e.g. develop and install 100% ecofriendly light.
Umm. If you want to make an eco-friendly light for graves of terrorist victims, go right ahead. Good luck with that.
It's all pointless. Massive photovoltaic infra could have been deployed decades ago but it would have harmed wealthy interests so they injected tens of billions of dollars into disrupting and controlling the political system of the US. Putting the continuation of this civilization as we know it at risk, all for a bit of money in a single person's lifespan. And it worked. In bad moments one wonders if it's better off…
Referring to your bio info. "People will downvote a throwaway account much more aggressively than a non-throwaway. Liberating, but a little disappointing." You're meant to use it briefly and then, you know, throw it away. The clue is in the name! You've had your account for 1077 days, that's hardly temporary. All your account is is anonymous, not temporary.
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Americans are giving up on their trucks: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/07/the-clearest-explanat... China is giving up on coal fired power plants: http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2016/10/21/china-coal-crack... Why? Because things change.
There are some encouraging trends, but the progress they've made to date is still very small compared to the size of the problem. Perhaps the most encouraging trend is the exponential growth of the photovoltaic solar panel industry. If that continues, it will certainly be a huge help. But you have to weigh that against the fact that there are still a couple of billion people with no access to power at all. All togeth…
Likewise China realized it couldn't double down on coal indefinitely, they had to back off. When your pollution becomes so bad planes can't take off you have to re-think your strategy.
China used coal because it was cost-effective, but now the costs of coal are too high to sustain its use. They're just going where the money is, and right now that's solar.
China itself doesn't have a lot of fossil fuels other than oil so naturally they're interested in something that makes them energy independent. Energy is, after all, power.
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Maybe because the average American pollutes 10 times more than a Chinese
That's an exaggeration. As of the 2014 per capita CO2 emissions in the US was 2.2 times Chinese (16.7mt vs 7.6). And this gap is rapidly closing: Chinese per capita emissions are up 150% in the past 10 years while US are down 15%. China could easily exceed the US by this metric inside of a decade. Keep in mind that China already emits twice as much CO2 in total as the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count…