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Originally Posted by Yug
Here is my bottom line: if it even was happening (which I don't for one moment believe), the worst polluter can not be compelled to play along. They are becoming a world power already, and doing what the 'the-sky-is-falling' chicken-little types suggest would hasten their rise to power. Here is my logic: because of this (that they won't play), accept it; you couldn't change it since you can't compel them to comply unless you want to go to war. That war may involve nukes. You think that won't pollute? So... in case that was not clear - you can't affect enough change, accept it, move on to your next 'cause-of-the-moment'.
(will this do until you once-again ignore / fail-to-address these points?)
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Your bottom line is inherently flawed because the science doesn't care what you believe. The facts of global warming have been proven over and over and the fact of anthropogenic forcing is also no longer in any doubt. If we pretend for a moment that your crappy country keeps polluting to get an edge, the environmentally aware countries won't. They rest of the world, without ever lifting a military finger, will end your polluter by enacting carbon-based tariffs and creating their own carbon-friendly industry. Your country dies in economic collapse because nobody buys their stuff and they cannot continue to produce or pollute as they were.
(and btw, I love how your arguments always slide straight into the worst case scenario. "We can't force them to not pollute without NUKES!!! blah blah blah!" Ease up there, man, you'll bust a blood vessel.)