Message from @Green Syndicalism
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back in the 2015 paris conference, india's big issue leading into it, and still is, was "american citizens are burning 34x more carbon than we do, so why should we be forced to restrict our usage?"
"especially when we're underdeveloped"
>You can't do it without being thorn apart by other superpowers.
you can actually
think about it
the future of energy is obviously in green tech
and if your companies hold the patents and produce/export that tech to the world
*you will have significant economic power*
This is like capitalism going into communism vs going commie right now. Fossils are the economic vehicle to go nuclear. WIthout fossils you don't have a proper transition and your economy is fucked.
You just can't afford this transition without fossils. So what do you do? Burn em all!
Now imagine that you burn all your fossils and the planet is so hot that China can't burn theirs, so they are in position that they have to make this uncomfortable leap, but you don't.
wait what
you literally want to accelerate the burning of fossil fuels?
because you think it leads to more power?
I am saying that it's attractive to all superpowers.
but its not?
china have already started making massive investments into renewables
if florida going underwater is attractive for america, then the world is *literally* fucked
Maybe this is what they will go for to screw over Russia's export of fossils. That's a complicated thing.
power comes with economic hegemony, and the key to economic hegemony in the coming decades is green tech exports
they dont have to burn the world to screw russia
it would be handing the world to russia *on a platter* to burn up the world
Well, Russia would benefit from getting more livable territory, which is in excess even now. How would it benefit otherwise?
Russia lives on export of fossils. It has nothing else.
russia gets to use the arctic
for shipping
mining/oil
but also they get more farmland
theyll get loads of immigrants to fill up their capacities too
As far as I remember, farmlands are worthless and oil is a fossil.
so they would quite literally become a superpower
whereas right now
theyre down towards the bottom of the "great powers" list
how can farmland be worthless in an era of perpetual food and water crises?
the whole issue with climate change is the terrible damage it will do to food production worldwide
creating shortages everywhere
Looking forward to 2030, I guess.
they are?
haha, idk
putin does recognise climate change is a big issue, but idk if hes doing anything about it
he might be