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Point here…we are some energy hoggin’ you-know-whatters but we’re not alone.\u00a0 To be fair, it would probably be more appropriate to collapse the global emissions of all the EU nations into one bubble rather than breaking it down by individual country.\u00a0\u00a0 Are you as surprised as I am to see how much China emits?\u00a0 This probably helps explain why discussions about Co2 emissions revolved around rights based claims tied to development.\u00a0 The “if you did it, so can we” logic is hard to combat as a moral argument.\u00a0 Perhaps the solution is for the west to accept a rights based frame and work on politically feasible ways to compensate the developing world for ceding “development rights”?\u00a0 Indeed African nations are seeking global warming reparations<\/a> from the “developed” world.\u00a0 This is obviously a non-starter in the U.S.\u00a0 I’m sure the Obama administration would love<\/em> that debate!<\/p>\n But there might be more benign ways to get at the same idea.\u00a0 Instead of direct cash transfers, you could assist developing economies through low-interest “green loans,” rebates for purcahsing “green” US or European equipment, or technical support for greening African industry.\u00a0 Regrettably, the framing might have to be paternalistic for it to “stick” with American and European electorates.\u00a0 Aid to “developing” nations connotes a much different response than “reparations”…especially in the US.<\/p>\n
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