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@NoneOfUrBusiness @yogthos @bioemerl they don't have a point. They absolutely hang off per captia emissions stats because it's the only way they can dismiss the extreme damage China is doing to the environment. Having more population doesn't allow you to pollute more. That output still harms the earth all the same.
Majority of the west is trending towards less emissions where as China is increasing emissions exponentially year on year.
The main thing I think is important in regards to China and the environment is that China explicitly opted to open up areas that subverted all of our pollution controls and ability to regulate industry, undervalued our labor, and generally fucked up progress for a solid decade, and they're going to continue to do that for a decade yet.
I'm not super prone to blame China for the pollution because they have a lot of people and they have to feed and give those people stuff.
But I will happily blame them for everything in paragraph one.
I left my comments because it's important to know when a bunch of shills for Stalin and mao are running around regardless of the validity of what they have to say, because whatever's coming out of their mouth is almost certainly propaganda.
That's so stupid. Of course more people will mean more pollution. You're not making any sense, please try to think 5 minutes before posting.