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China's annual emissions are huge and their plans for coal-fired power stations are incompatible with a habitable planet.
Are you a leader of a Global North country, wondering how you can persuade them to do better?
IDEAS... 💡🧵
Are you a leader of a Global North country, wondering how you can persuade them to do better?
IDEAS... 💡🧵
First up, make sure your per capita emissions are lower than theirs - looking at you, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and many others.
Also remember the Global North's historic emissions are off the scale, and almost all that carbon you burnt in the last 200 years is still in the atmosphere.
Not much you can do about that now except decarbonise as quickly as possible to atone for past sins.
Not much you can do about that now except decarbonise as quickly as possible to atone for past sins.
Victims. Millions of them.
No matter who you were and are, financial terrorism looms large. In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Economic Collapse, tens of millions of people around the world were thrown into upheaval.
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No matter who you were and are, financial terrorism looms large. In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Economic Collapse, tens of millions of people around the world were thrown into upheaval.
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The immediate narrative shouted by mainstream media was people got greedy, or in over their heads, using their homes as ATM machines as if millions outwitted the system of global finance to destroy the world.
If that were the case, why did trillions of dollars get funneled back into the system that created it, all while tens of millions of people had their lives completely destroyed?
