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Countries defined by arbitrary lines are just a group of arbitrary number of people.
defined by cultures, rules, regulations, notice which country is building a shitload of coal power plants?
https://aussie.zone/post/31299070/22308678
That is a decision they are making alone, no other country is doing this even though they could
Nah, most countries these days are defined by arbitrary lines drawn by colonisers. And it still doesn't matter. 1.3 billion >>>>> 27.4 million. 1.3 billion people will always have much more total emissions because it is 47 times more number of people. In fact, for India to maintain same lifestyle as any Australian, they will need to far more amounts of energy consumption and hence emissions than currently and they have far far less of it. May be we should split up Australia and give that land so they get equal amount of land resources allocated.
Now, also show me which countries are building largest amount of solar energy farms, nuclear energy, wind and so on and tell me why are others not doing it. And then also show me the commutative emissions of the arbitrarily defined countries over last 100 years. Development is not a privilege of some specific people.
You can reduce Australia's emissions even more by declaring that every Australian is a separate country, every David, John, Peter in Australia will have many times lower emissions than entire country of India, consisting 1.3 billion people.
sorry you’re typing words but it’s super confusing
why are we declaring every australian is a separate country?
Because it doesn't make sense to compare total emissions from 1.3 billion people with total emissions from 27.4 million people. 1.3 billion >>>>> 27.4 million.
You're right, they have an even GREATER responsibility to the planet because they have so many people
It's not my fault they had so many kids
We should split up Australia and give the land to the Indians. Only that will be fair for greater responsibility they bear.
why would that be fair? we don't have a culture of having as many kids as possible
why punish us for something we didn't do?
They're sovereign citizens.
right but whether they like it or not they are within the governance of Australia and thus are covered by the policy direction of the government of Australia, elected democratically by the people of Australia, to continue the culture and work ethic and the desires of the people within the country and the laws and trade deals we have with other countries
Oh. I was more so referring to the people on YouTube that are doing stupid shit, claim this, then get arrested anyways.
I honestly have no (serious) idea.