Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> But, denyer or worrier, the fact that Britain produces only a small
> fraction of the earth's anthropogenically produced CO2 while the US (and
> especially now China) produce the bulk of it makes me call you
> financially impractical. Even if all of Britain did what you're doing
> it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference. The entire world will
> have to reduce total energy consumption by about 80% in order to make a
> dent in the (assumed) temperature
This is to miss the point, which is this:
The misery of curtailing runaway global warming must be equally distributed
around the world.
We in Britain cannot expect the populations of China and India to embrace
the misery of curtailing runaway global warming if we in Britain say "But
our contribution is so small that we do not need to do anything". We need
to embrace the misery even though our contribution will make no practical
difference to the end result.
The misery must be equally distributed.
-- from CyberSimian in the UK
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