It seems nobody really wants to solve the problem and instead wants to just blame the US/Europe, while ignoring the biggest polluters on the planet.
You can't tell me this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_in_China
Is not causing enormous amounts of damage to our environment and planet.
It's like me telling my children they must not smoke, whilst lighting one up.
I'm in the UK. Globally our emissions count for almost nothing. Yet I want people to blame the UK for every misstep and failure on climate. I badly want the UK, and everywhere on the planet net zero, asap. The more pressure to do that, from all sources, the better.
Maybe when someone hits net zero we'll start to see carbon tariffs on all imports... Probably wishful thinking, but I can hope.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-thes...
But this is the reason I don't believe we will be able to stop or even slow down climate change much as major power consumption growth is going to be outside US and Europe. So even if they are able to bring down carbon use the growth of carbon use in other places like Africa and Asia will offset it. The world is fucked and I am very pessimistic about it. The world population is expected to go over 10billion in the future but the world can't sustain the 8billion we have now.
The other sad fact is that after all we do to prevent CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere, it won't stop humans from emitting it. I predict the next thing will be population control.