I don't understand the necessity to prove that climate change is manmade as a precursor to do something about it.
The blaming of China and India for the bulk of co2 emissions also ignores not just the issue of past emissions, which abbadabba brought up, but also the issue of population.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...xide_emissions
While China has the highest total carbon footprint, it's per capita carbon footprint is less than 1/2 the US. India's total carbon footprint is 1/2 the US while having 3x the population. So to say India and China are doing nothing is clearly untrue. Unless if you want to kill off a bunch of people, just keeping total carbon emissions at current levels is a challenge for both China and India.
While those enormous populations are a detriment to carbon reduction, the silver lining is that those large populations are also a tremendously large market for American low pollution products. China is already the largest market for American car companies, tech hardware, and select agricultural products. To lose that market share of future environmentally sound products is the most anti business idea you can think of. You're not going to export a lot of coal in the future. Can't build a pipeline to Asia either.
The idea that environmental regulation is a direct link to job loss is fairly spurious.
Environmental initiatives can just as easily create jobs and there is a tremendous opportunity in front of us.
Last edited by amoeba; 06-04-2017 at 12:54 AM.