Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "US hypocritically attacks China on climate change, while Beijing leads world in renewable energy" video.

Or they are afraid.
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These narratives have been going on for some time on the online communities like Reddit. The usual being talking points like China is the biggest carbon emitter, China is building coal plants, they even say the dams China built are destroying people lives because they have to be relocated and areas flooded, ignoring the fact that the US did this long ago too. Many times they remove Native Americans from their ancestral homelands for these projects. Often they remove them just to steal their lands but somehow China is the bad guy. But I am also seeing that these rhetoric are beginning to crack as more and more people are countering with per capita emission, and even historical emission. As far as I know, I was one of the first few to post counter narratives to China carbon emission by pointing out the historical emission of the collective west. Ben used the analogy of an arsonist telling his neighbor not to burn down the house. I use the analogy that it is like you have older brothers who took all the inheritance from your dead father and left you with nothing, and then look down on you for working at McDonald's to survive. There is only so much the planet can support, a carbon debt pool if you will, that if we used it up, there is not enough to go around. So the collective west used up all the carbon debt for their industrialization, achieved a high standard of living, continues to support their wasteful lifestyles (American lifestyle are especially, disgustingly wasteful) and then lecture everyone else for trying to pull their people out of poverty using the same accessible, cheap energy sources. Climate change lecturing by the west, and especially by the US is appallingly hypocritical and another insane injustice they have inflicted on the world. Instead of allowing them to put up these theatrical charades, the west needs to be be forced, even at gun point, to pay climate reparations to everyone else.
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Yup, the west consume far more resources per capita than the rest of the world. That is an important point to bring up, because it is not just carbon emission, it is nearly every part of human consumption.
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@TacticalMayo Ohh they are afraid, alright. They are afraid of losing the hegemony and becoming weak enough that the past sins will come and haunt them. Imagine the Global South comes knocking down the west's front door and demanding reparations. Ohh they are afraid.
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@paulsnow Such a bullshit underhanded argument. They use more resources unnecessarily and yes they should use less resources because their standard of living is created through imperialism. The west do not deserve that wealth, it was stolen from the Global South. Everyone should have their standard of living increase and that mean the west have to cut back on their wasteful lifestyles. If you don't do it, we will force you to. Sooner or later. That's what the west (especially their oligarchs) is really afraid of, losing the power to access that wasteful lifestyles. That's why there is this huge backlash toward China because westerners know China can break this world order established to benefit the west, and why people who live there just suck up all these obviously bullshit propaganda. The west will have to be forced to degrow, reduce their standard of living and live within their means. And they won't have the power to dictate and control other countries. And it is scaring the shit out of you people.
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