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How about western countries, especially the US and Canada, for moving all their manufacturing to China? Don’t they share responsibility?

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The responsibility is on the government to create policies that discourage or tax carbon emissions.

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Yeah, but they’ve mostly been bought by lobbyists. Si there’s that.

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The “communists” (hardly…) are bought by lobbyists?

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Not only moving manufacturing to China but being car centric and very polluting themselves. In fact they are in top 3 polluters.

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There are better things to blame Canada and the US for than the unfortunate loss of all their manufacturing industry.

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Oh of course. Like how Canada doesn’t want to phase out oil exploitation.

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Yes they should share some of the responsibility. Their government should be trying to meet the same targets as everyone else.

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Did you watch the video, or just the headline? The argument is that China is doing more than other countries when it comes to renewables. And their pollution is much better when looking at per capita numbers.

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I think the per capita measurement of pollution for China is not really an apples to apples comparison to other first world nations as so much of their population lives in poverty.

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I didn’t feel like the video was being entirely honest, but the comment I replied to just ignored the entire contents of the video, which is why I commented.

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China’s per capita CO2 output is pretty much on par with the EU’s now. Better than America, Canada, Australia, Russia, and others, but it’s no longer actually that low

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