The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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12 points

Does Chinese inaction absolve all responsibility of the West?

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Classic whataboutism

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Who’s engaging in whataboutism?

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Well, Australia is selling them all the coal.

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National pride ✨

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…of course it doesn’t? Like what kinda point is that?

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Unless you’re Chinese, there’s very little you can do to stop that, as opposed to encouraging your country’s politicians who have proven commitment to curb climate change.

So “China builds 5 coal plants every day before breakfast” is the whataboutism here.

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China produces a lot of stuff. The whole capitalist consumer drive force is world wide. Not sure what you expect to be able to do though.

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The point is that this poster is a WuMao and will say anything to try and support the Chinese government. Sad that they have wormed their way in here already.

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I am not WuMao. I simply don’t appreciate useless finger pointing and implied righteousness to justify doing nothing just because some other country isn’t doing what they can either.

We’re all watching the world burn and this finger pointing is doing little else but assure a very painful future.

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But I wanna blame China.

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Same same same. It’s all their fault for manufacturing all of our shit and still having half of the CO2 emissions per capita compared to the US.

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