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No. Humanity's big problem is not global warming. It is uncontrolled demographic explosion in Africa and Asia.

More mouths to feed only will make ecologic problems worse.

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US mouths eat more than asian and african. Source : https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person

Ah, but pollution is bigger in Asia.

https://waqi.info/

not to mention that we openly support regimes that will cut their own peoples legs and pollute their own lands for our business.

making our stuff, and disposing of our waste.

Asia and Africa are just following what Europe and America did years ago.

Yeah, and their only choice is to stop, because the US and Europe alone cannot solve global warming.

Its not a realistic choice for them. Large parts of developing nations still have absolute poverty problems with their population dying due to the lack of basic necessities. Having them remain on that level of poverty, or worse, reducing their standard of living further is not an option. Its up to the West to solve global warming globally and that includes providing at least India and Africa, but likely every developing Nation, including China, with climate neutral ways of development equivalent to the potential these region shouldnt take in the form of polluting development options.

This is going to be very expensive and not something governments alone can stem. I dont see how this could be achievable in our current market structures.

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