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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You ignore political realities.

An Apollo scale program to extract carbon emissions from the atmosphere could be financed by the OECD countries without heavily impacting their economies.

Building a thousand nuclear plants with reduced safety requirements in a remote place would not run into NIMBY problems.

Stopping emissions globally would require Chinese political will, since they emit more than all of the OECD combined.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    China has stalled their CO2 emissions since roughly 2012; they mostly pollute so much because there's immense demand of manufactured goods in richer countries; they've been putting far more effort into transitioning to renewables than some Western countries; and they're still below emissions per capita than Canada, the US, Russia, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Iran, Israel, Germany and Japan.

    If you want China to emit even less, support protectionist policies in Western countries and/or tariff reductions for products that may prove they've been produced with renewables.

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