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by wolverine876
1806 days ago
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> This is also another reason why the crux of the problem is not with developed countries. By far the most emissions, now and historically, are in developed countries. The cause of our current problems is the failure of developed countries, the US in particular, to act. |
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If you want to play the blame game for historical emissions, sure, the developed countries are the biggest culprits. That however has no bearing on future emissions.
No policy of today will undo historical emissions, except maybe a significant sequestration effort, but I don't see any of that in the broader discussion. It's all about how the US needs to reduce current emissions, which would still only amount to 15% of worldwide emissions if eliminated completely.
We also can see that the majority of current emissions are coming out of developing countries, unless for some reason you want to count China into the developed countries.