How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change: https://www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-how-colonial-rule-radically-shifts-historical-responsibility-for-climate-change/ @climate
#climateDebt #climateChange #GHG #NL #Netherlands #TheNetherlands #UK #US #USA #China #Canada #NZ #history
this is important perspective and it doesn’t reduce anyone’s responsibility to stop producing greenhouse emissions
I don’t know if I buy the bit about China. I seem to remember seeing the opposite a few years ago
Reads like it was written by ai “chatgpt make up some bullshit about colonialism and greenhouse gases”
Given who published this, I’m quite sure it was written by people who actually studied the topic and had something useful to say.
This is as helpful as throwing dice.
I don’t understand this graph.
A starting point is to read the associated article — it tries to reallocate historical cumulative CO2 emissions based on who benefited from the emissions during the colonial era.
What about current goods produced in e.g. china and consumed in the west? Are they also accounted to the consumers in current statistics? Or the producers?
They’re not, but it makes a surprisingly modest difference
