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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Can you prove this? What about this chart: US Air Pollution
The graph doesn't disprove anything I said? Coal plants in the USA are forced to spend a lot of money on filters to reduce pollution but currently CO2 is not considered pollution. Add CO2 to that graph and it will look quite different.
Subsidies on other energy sources and the above extra costs for operating coal plants has reduced the amount of coal used for energy production in the USA by 25% in the last 10 years alone. So the USA is actually doing what I want it to do which is passing laws that make the cheapest energy source no longer the cheapest energy source. They are just not doing enough because CO2 is not considered pollution yet.
The rest of your post is still arguing that what we did 100 years ago is still valid now and I also wonder which developing countries are just getting light bulbs and refrigeration.
If you really believe that what we did a 100 years ago to get where we are is good for developing countries now then do you also have no problem with Brazil and Indonesia clearing their forests like Europe did to get more grazing lands and cheap fuel to burn.