When a radioactive roch is stored in a cave somewhere instead of stopping to produce crypto currencies: 🤬🤬🤬
Also only two comments mention plastic at all, which is odd given the topic.
China's per capita emissions are also waaay higher then those of the EU for example, while the EU's emissions are falling and China's are rising. Also China's emissions fall by about 10%, when you adjust for trade.
The big problem is more that the countries most responsible for climate change is changing. The West emissions are falling, whereas non Western countries emissions are rising. So the West argues that climate reparations should be paid by the countries emitting the most and not by the countries who have the most money. They are related, but not the same. Also that that bases needs to be adjusted over time.
How the hell can the presidential candidate of the Green Party own a MILLION DOLLARS OF OIL AND GAS SHARES? How can you complain about Israel murdering children in Gaza, when you own shares in Raytheon, which sells and produces weapons for and in Israel?
Because there are both US and EU laws preventing code from countries deemed a threat. Torvalds is paid by the Ameircan Linux Foundation, which has to work under US law and he himself is an EU citizen. Also a lot of other developers are from those countries and if they do not comply, they could get into some pretty bad legal trouble.
So it pretty much boils down to kick out the Russians or kick out all US and EU citizens and well we see Linus choice.
$7trillion is three times the GDP if Brazil. It is bigger then the US federal budget. Seriously it is insane.
Mark Robinson described himself as a "Black Nazi", but no LOTR is not real.
Funny thing something like that happened to the account:
We literally destroyed perfectly working pedestrian neighbourhoods to make them better for cars. I can not see how having bicycles earlier would have changed anything. We had trains well before cars and at a massive scale and they did not stop cars either.
And that is why GDP is such a badly flawed metric and why we should not use it as the one and only way to measure progress.
To sum it up. The inital thought was that the bill would be a public investment of $385 billion in renewables, but it seems it will be more in the line of $1.2 trillion, so about three times more money. Certainly a big change and extremly good news.
GDP of the least developed countries is currently $1.5Trillion. For them $250billion would be a massive help.
Also Panama as a high income country. That they are asking developed countries for money is strong. I do get that the definition between high income and developed is a bit different, but Panama is rich enough to pay for its own damage and if anything should seriously think about paying into the found.