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

russia BENEFITS from climate change

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

this same argument applies for all the nordic countries btw

but they went super green already

even though climate change will benefit them, they went green before the US, *who will not benefit*

Just checked it. It seems like Putin denies humanity being responsible for it.

GG @SonicAF, you just advanced to level 3!

wtf

i swear i saw him saying its a big issue

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/vladimir-putin-climate-change-pledges-russia

At least he did in 2017. "We can't affect it, but we can adapt".