Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Geopolitical Economy Report"
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HEY BEN: Now for some information you're NOT TELLING everyone.
YES America and the West have been bad. I'm Australian and we have been as bad per capita as anyone and worse than most, BUT there's only 25 million of us. That said we have to lift our game just as everyone else has to.
THIS IS NOT A GAME of your country, my country that country, those countries. There are 8 Billion people on this planet and we are all in this TOGETHER and Mother Nature does NOT CARE about which flag you are waving.
Yes the Chinese lifted 800 million people out of poverty and its been one of the greatest economic achievements in human history, BUT THEY WERE SLOPPY very sloppy. For well over 20 years starting in the mid 1990s they were burning as much coal in the ground as they were in power stations. We know this because the hired German specialists to help out and the Germans made a documentary about it.
It's what happens when you are sloppy at coal mining. By the early 2000s the Chinese (according to the IEA) were burning as much coal each year as the entire human race did in the early 1970s. By the 2010s the Chinese were burning over 3,000,000,000,000 tons (3 Billion tons of coal).
Remember that C + O2 -> CO2 formula from high school? When you look at the atomic weights you find oxygen is heavier than carbon so for each ton of Carbon that is burnt you get 3-2/3rds tons of CO2. So those 3 billion tons of coal produce 11 billion tons of CO2. But with what the burnt in the ground the Chinese have been emitting over 20 billion tons of CO2 a year.
The problem is the Chinese have to shut their coal fired power stations and they AREN'T.
Do the Americans, Australians, Canadians and other have to do better, OF COURSE THEY DO.
But playing your country, my country, that country, those countries HELPS NOBODY.
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