>foreigners whine about how America doesn't commit to a worthless international treaty
>act like the world is ending over it
>don't bother to meet the targets themselves
Unless you're part of the below countries, you should be ashamed of yourself.
>There are 195 signatories, of which only the following are considered even “in range” of their Paris targets: Morocco, Gambia, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, and the Philippines.
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No fucking shit
Fact of the matter is that developed countries aren't the ones who'll suffer the first pitfalls of climate change, and they simply cannot afford to hinder themselves at a time of such heightened global political tensions. And developing countries literally do not have the means to reduce emissions.
Climate change will only maybe fix itself once the civilized world has its backs against the wall and has no other choice. Of course by then it'll probably be too late and a huge amount of damage will have already been dealt.
>Climate change will only maybe fix itself once the civilized world has its backs against the wall and has no other choice.
Like what, waves of climate refugees?
It will be on a scale 10x worse than Syria
Here is the article by the way
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>And developing countries literally do not have the means to reduce emissions.
nicaragua did, the reason they didnt sign up at first is because they met the goal way back in the 90's
but they have special circumstances that help (lack of industry, plentiful geothermal and wind energy, for cheap)
The whole thing was a fucking joke anyway.
We're going to spend a trillion dollars and shift the balance of industrial power even further to large developing countries who don't give a shit all to MAYBE lessen warming by .02 degrees over the next 150 years.
The measures needed to actually reduce warming by any significant amount could actually be worse for societies than gradually adapting to a warming planet, which has also been naturally warming since the little ice age on top of what ever effects we are causing.
As you said yourself, Nicaragua is literally a global hub for renewable energies, it's not at all a typical country in this regard. Also, they've received a ton of Chinese investment in recent years, as well as investment from elsewhere (for example, a Canadian company opened a geothermal power plant there recently).
>there will always be retards who are against nuclear energy
this world doesnt deserve to be saved
we call them alb*rtans here
didn't read.
tl;dr? global warming is a hoax? told ya
Hippies unironically ruined the world.
You deserve to hang.
Nuclear energy reminds me of air travel in a way. Despite being such a highly regulated area, despite being at the forefront of scientific and technologic developments, despite actual fucking statistics showing just how safe it is, you'll always get fearful retards who let their phobias get the best of them and thus prevent the proper development of these technologies.
We just need to nuke Alberta and we'll meet our quotas easy.
oil niggers?
that's too complicated. too many arrows. what does that mean?
Yeah, they're just the other side of the border from the Dakotas/Montana, and their economy is essentially the same as the Dakotas (except much worse because instead of of cheap gas they have tarsands, which are not at all competitive when the price of oil is low)
it means go to bed, its a school night
its so fucking painful it hurts
coal power plants produce more radiation in a year than a nuclear plant does in 100 for fucks sake
you get a higher dose of radiation by just sleeping in the same bed as another human in ONE night
there are 0 downsides to nuclear energy besides the high startup cost, and skilled workforce needed (you can bury waste, or reseed it, or just send it to the sun)
uranium is literally millions of times more energy dense than coal or oil (by volume, its "only" 100,000 times as energy dense by weight), and you can "mine" it from fucking worthless seawater
China Syndrome (its a movie) and sensationalist news did more damage
not to mention chernobyl a couple decades later
>coal power plants produce more radiation in a year than a nuclear plant does in 100 for fucks sake
>don't bother to meet the targets themselves
Whats the point of meeting the targets when you need everyone on it, especially the worst offender?
China did sign it. It emits 10,357 million metric tons and the US is barely over half of that.
>Nuclear energy reminds me of air travel in a way.
Air travel is economically competitive with surface travel
Nuclear is not economically competitive with coal