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Whether or not significant global warming exists inherently isn't a political issue (though there are political motives to confirm this narrative regardless).
The real political element is how do you address it? Do you carbon tax, fuck over businesses, and limit the full growth and potential of the nation? You do realize that the affects of a collapsing economy will include people no longer giving a literal shit about global warming right? Do you force your country to follow all of these rules when the result will be a global reduction of a trivial amount of greenhouse gas compared to the rest of the world's output?
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Even if every filthy privileged white male in the entire USA decides to bend over to the demands of the most radical climate nuts on the left and the USA reduces its total emissions by HALF, its still almost nothing. What is going to happen when India and China continue their industrial boom? Will China and other emerging countries follow every little pretty rule that western bureaucrats conjure up? What will happen when Africa joins the industrial age?
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Leftists are infatuated with the top-down approach of addressing climate change because it massively expands the power of the state. Pragmatists and reasonable people understand that REGULATE REGULATE REGULATE is not going to #SaveTheEarth. If every dollar spent on the climate change front is instead directed 100% to investment in science and technology in both the public and private sector (something republicans do MUCH better than democrats by the way), then not only will the earth be "saved", but we get all kinds of sick technology to apply to our daily lives on top of it all. Instead, the climate science community will continue to circlejerk about how doomed the earth is while they lobby for their democrat overlords to put every energy corporation in America in shackles.
Friendly reminder that Trump is an American exceptionalist. I 10000% guarantee you he will allocate more money to the sciences than Obama did because he wants America back on the forefront of innovation and exploration.
You do realize that the affects of a collapsing economy will include people no longer giving a literal shit about global warming right?
Yeah, western climate change ambitions are almost fruitless as long as Asia does not cooperate. And I agree that things will get insane once wider parts of Africa catch up in infrastructure and thus life expectancy while maintaining their birth rates.
I do agree should Asia not cooperate any efforts here will be fruitless. Luckily, with the Paris Agreement going into effect in 2020 (with much of Africa and Asia participating no less) we'll be making a step in the right direction.
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Regarding gravs point about economic issues of climate change. Its no secret to me (or hopefully any leftists, but lets be honest some of them have zero idea whats going on), that a large part of our economy relies on carbon producers. I'm not trying to put forth any changes we can make to greenhouse gas producers without imploding the economy, just trying to explain the fact that its a legitimate problem in the world. All I'm asking for is acknowledgement that climate change exists as a whole and that its not a hoax to get democrats continually elected.