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"steps to reduce emissions" is a platitude that sounds nice. they have never actually reduced emissions. they will surpass the US in per capita emissions at this rate within a decade.

They have a plan and they are sinking much of their current fossil fuel use into the largest renewable energy system on the planet. Compared to, say, rolling back windfarms and redirecting that money (almost a billion) into dodgy neighbours rolling coal ventures. Your prefer the US approach then?

This has always appeared to be a very measurable situation. Either one is committed to decreasing emissions or they are not. You can just measure emissions over time and compare.

It has never made sense to me that people are willing to ignore the trends and argue in platitudes.

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well, yes we're overfed and over-commercialized. But we also vastly out build, grow and produce Europe. (and you have more people)

If using simple metrics like GDP growth, I'm more in the camp of Paul Krugman's argument[0] that such comparisons with simple naïve metrics are insufficient to analyse it. I agree the USA has grown more steadily than the EU and the American software/tech industries have a leg up but the devil is in the details. I travel a lot for work to the USA and I do not experience what this GDP growth has brought to the US in th…

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