hitbyacar1

I don't get how you didn't get caught. Did they not have cameras in the bank?

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I think it's more likely that they haven't covered trumps true statements because they're not the ones being covered in the mainstream media. I mean there's clear bias in their selecting quotes and there's bias in some of their ratings (POF v False is entirely a subjective distinction) but j don't think it's fair to say that they're falsely declaring hillarys statements to be true.

How do you respond to the complaint by developing countries (specifically China and India) that Western countries polluted the earth for years in order to develop economically, so its hypocritical to try to block Eastern countries from developing?

I guess a better way to phrase the question is "Is it the responsibility of past emitters to make greater concessions than developing countries for whom to do so might severely stunt economic growth?"

It's not a matter of making concessions to developing countries, it's a matter of making concessions to the world, in order to reduce emissions. Any standard for emissions is going to affect standards of living and potential economic growth in developing countries more than in developed ones because green energy is more expensive.

I'm not saying China and India should have free reign to pollute the Earth while Western countries need to cut back entirely. All I'm saying is that if increasing global standards of living is an important objective for the international community at large, and reducing global emissions is also an important objective, than those that can reduce emissions more without damaging internal standards of living should bear a greater burden in achieving lover global emissions.

India and China should institute population control measures (although both have in the past and have been massive failures). But shouldn't Western countries also introduce consumption control? Indians and Chinese look at Americans with their one car for every two people and a McDonald's on every street corner and say "That's not fair." Maybe if the West made a commitment to getting old cars off the roads, increasing public transportation and reducing meat consumption, India and China would also be more willing to take larger steps to combating climate change. But as it is, it's not surprising that China and India are not happy with the deals being offered; the effects of the cutbacks that they're being asked to make are far greater than the effects of the cutbacks the developed countries are making.