What a vague and silly comment, half the world's top contributors to greenhouse gasses aren't even capitalist countries. I get the fediverse isn't a fan of capitalism, but you can't just blanketly blame everything on it.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (58 children)

The US military is the single largest polluter organisation on the planet - do tell me how we can't blame capitalism again?

And just for your information - that other gigantic capitalist country you falsely believe isn't capitalist? Guess what? It's capitalist.

[+] Steeve@lemmy.ca -31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (44 children)

China is the number one greenhouse gas contributor, Russia is near the top of the list as well. Fuck off tankies.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

The United States has double China's emissions per capita, and China actually is the world leader in the production of sustainable development products like solar panels even though the USA had a 150 year head start in its industrialisation. Despite whatever criticisms you may have against China, looking only at total emissions is definitely misleading. China's renewable power has gone up fivefold in the past 15 years in absolute numbers and double in percentage of total production. The USA hasn't even been building hydro dams since the 80s, while China has built some 15 in the past 20 years. Since one is explicitly the most capitalist country and the other is """capitalist actually""", I think it is fair to say that capitalism has a negative correlation with fighting climate change.

Though I have no idea why you included the Russian Federation there, since it is a capitalist oligarchy created by and modelled after the USA. Do you believe that Russia is communist by any chance?

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