Kerry Says U.S. and China Must Set Aside Politics to Tackle Climate Change
Kerry Says U.S. and China Must Set Aside Politics to Tackle Climate Change
John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, is in Beijing for three days of talks between the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gas pollution.
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Maybe I’m an idealist but if the UN can unite behind war, why do they have such a hard time uniting behind climate change?
If the UN (or some international group given the authority to punish climate offenses) would enact steep financial penalties for ecological offenses that scale based on the size of the corporation doing the damage, pollutiontion would go away overernight.
For example: If you ship goods on a giant container ship from China, you will pay penalties/fines that scale with the size of your corporation and the size of your carbon footprint.
We should figure out the math behind this: what amount would hurt their profits enough to cause them to stop shipping and move manufacturing to a more sensible location?