Ignoring the climate emergency

• ‘Catastrophic’ marine heatwaves are killing sealife and causing mass disruption to UK fisheries

• Climate change is spoiling food faster, making hundreds of millions of people sick around the world

• Slender-billed curlew goes extinct     (archived link)

• Extreme drought in Colorado could come every 6 years — instead of every 1,000 — due to climate change, study finds     (archived link)

• Greenland's meltwater will slow Atlantic circulation, climate model suggests     (archived link)

• Historically bad year for dolphin strandings on Cape Cod has scientists looking for answers     (archived link)

• Landslides are a growing climate threat

• Climate change makes vaccines more important—while also undercutting them

• Plastics contribute to 'triple planetary crisis' impacts     (archived link)

   
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Thing is that India and China will still screw us. Right now India, China, and the US are probably the worst places.
- Check out the CO2 emissions per capita! It is to easy blaming China and India. And China is switching to solar faster than the Western nations.
  https://aqalgroup.com/2022-worldwide-ghg-emissions/
  
  If we just had more people, that would get the per capita numbers down and the problem would be solved!
  Wait...
  
  Per capita isn't really important in this case. Overall output is. The planet doesn't care if it's getting less per capita from one place or another.
  Then, the other thing is that your graph is just CO2. There are many other gasses that are literally thousands of times worse than CO2.
  
  Yeah the planet does not care at all. Neither the overall output or the per capita. We do.
  Problem is there is no reducing the overall output without solving the imbalance between developed countries and undeveloped countries (imbalance of the per capita emisions). Undeveloped countries will always try to achieve the same standard of living as the developed ones. And who are we to blame them?
  And I didn’t see real efforts of the developed countries to reduce their emissions fast enough. Why should the others? China has a plan at least.
  But humans be humans, so brace yourself it’s going to be hot.
  Or cold for the Europeans if the Golfstrom is really collapsing.
  
  China is shilling out solar because its making them money. Overhead satellite stuff shows they're throwing out loads of harmful emissions that are terrible for global warming.
  
  Per capita isn't really important in this case. Overall output is. The planet doesn't care if it's getting less per capita from one place or another.
  I don't see any value in that approach except for finger pointing and doomer posting.
  Then, the other thing is that your graph is just CO2.
  No, it is CO2eq.
  
  That was a good argument before the CCP started pressuring people to have 3 children. They want to actively increase their population through means other than immigration.

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