Green Energy Revolution Megathread

[Valmy]

That's not very communist is it.

It is extremely Marxist. Take over state power and use it. The whole world will be beaten by the People's Stick.

[Valmy]

That's not very communist is it.

That's right. 

Evidence? The Communist states were/are very into mass environmental destruction. Just ask the former port towns on the Aral Sea.

[Valmy]

Global Warming is somebody else's problem.  One Belt One Road aims to project Chinese power and to (hopefully) make some money in the process.  Global Warming just doesn't factor into the decision making process at all. 

Does China not exist on the globe?

[Eddie Teach]

That's not very communist is it.

It is extremely Marxist. Take over state power and use it. The whole world will be beaten by the People's Stick.

In a world where everyone gets the same, not wanting others to do well is akin to not wanting yourself to do well.

[Monoriu]

Global Warming is somebody else's problem.  One Belt One Road aims to project Chinese power and to (hopefully) make some money in the process.  Global Warming just doesn't factor into the decision making process at all. 

Does China not exist on the globe?

China is no where near the majority on the globe.  Let the majority handle global warming, while the Chinese free ride.  That's the plan 

[Admiral Yi]

A nifty graph to better visualize Mono's point. Chinese carbon emissions.



Apparently the Chinese are opening one large coal plant a week. Greta better get on the case.

I am reminded by this graph that the original Paris Accord, the one Wubya opted out of, didn't include China and India.

[Eddie Teach]

Global Warming is somebody else's problem.  One Belt One Road aims to project Chinese power and to (hopefully) make some money in the process.  Global Warming just doesn't factor into the decision making process at all. 

Does China not exist on the globe?

China is no where near the majority on the globe.  Let the majority handle global warming, while the Chinese free ride.  That's the plan 

Doesn't work if China produces enough to cause warming by itself.

[Monoriu]

Global Warming is somebody else's problem.  One Belt One Road aims to project Chinese power and to (hopefully) make some money in the process.  Global Warming just doesn't factor into the decision making process at all. 

Does China not exist on the globe?

China is no where near the majority on the globe.  Let the majority handle global warming, while the Chinese free ride.  That's the plan 

Doesn't work if China produces enough to cause warming by itself.

Chinese are mainly concerned about families, not societies.  As long as my family survives the warming, that's fine. 

[The Minsky Moment]

A nifty graph to better visualize Mono's point. Chinese carbon emissions.



Apparently the Chinese are opening one large coal plant a week. Greta better get on the case.

What exactly is this graph measuring and what is the source for it?
It doesn't appear to be measuring carbon emissions by country since China was at around 9 billion tons in 2016, with the US at 4.8 billion and India at just over 2 billion.  Things can change in 3 years but not that much.

[mongers]

What exactly is this graph measuring and what is the source for it?
It doesn't appear to be measuring carbon emissions by country since China was at around 9 billion tons in 2016, with the US at 4.8 billion and India at just over 2 billion.  Things can change in 3 years but not that much.

It's shows the average of the guesses made by westerners answering the question "Which three countries are the worlds largest CO2 polluters".

The results are in non-specific numbers, the y axis scale being a semi-randomized number (d6) multiplied by one million (for gravitas)

[The Minsky Moment]

Canada, Iran, Saudi Arabia all off the chart, but Kazakhstan and Taiwan are on it . . .

[Admiral Yi]

It's shows the average of the guesses made by westerners answering the question "Which three countries are the worlds largest CO2 polluters".

Dude, that is a monumentally useless graph.  Bordering on criminal disinformation.

[Valmy]

WTF? Ok thank God. You fuckers had me freaking out there.

Stop with this kind of bullshit ok?

[Admiral Yi]

Wait, so Legbiter posted the graph and mongers explains it, so I guess mongers was making a mongers joke.

[mongers]

Wait, so Legbiter posted the graph and mongers explains it, so I guess mongers was making a mongers joke.

I love all of you stupid fuckers.   


Goodnight all.