• Big_Twerp@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    As if the only impact of climate breakdown is heat. Also; where is India and china’s contribution to climate change. Frankly, this is bullshit.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Per person, emissions in both China and India are still substantially lower than almost all developed countries. India’s per person emissions are less than one-quarter of the global average, and roughly one-tenth of those of the US. Close to a quarter of all carbon emissions come from manufacturing products which are exported and consumed in other countries. Textiles and clothes exported from India and south Asia account for over 4% of global emissions.
      Labelling India and China as the chief villains of COP26 is a convenient narrative. The financial aid which rich countries promised yet failed to deliver as part of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 was supposed to help developing countries dump coal for cleaner sources of energy. And while the world berated India and China for weakening the Glasgow Climate Pact’s coal resolution, few questioned the fossil fuel projects being floated in developed nations, like the UK’s Cambo oilfield and the Line 3 oil pipeline between Canada and the US.

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      And that’s without even going back to look at imperialism and its impacts on those countries, and why they’re now having to play catch up with the west (who not only did our fair share of polluting during our own industrial revolutions, but still continue to do so pretty much freely), mostly to provide for the west.

      This, like the overpopulation myth, are nothing more than racist distractions created by the rich and powerful to get us to blame “others” rather than look for who is really at fault - them (Edit to clarify: and by them I mean all obscenely rich and the governments they control, faux communists included).

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I’d bet the basic conclusion here is still correct, but the western US is going to get pretty damn arid based on a lot of models.

      • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Even Europe gets fucked in the ass. There are more and more droughts, floods, ground becomes basically to hard for shit to grow in summer, ground water levels get lower and lower, the alps are eroding due to heat, all the wildfires, sinking of citys…

        Its absolutely not just about heat.