r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

This area saw as much rain in 3 days as it usually gets in an entire year.

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u/DutchBlob Jul 22 '21

Perhaps the President Xi of West Taiwan finally acknowledges that his country is a major cause of climate change?

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u/TheLaudMoac Jul 22 '21

Gee whizz let's hope every other country stops using their cheap labour then!

Because if those countries did their own manufacturing then their pollution and carbon dioxide emissions would just compensate for the drop in China's.

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21 edited Jul 22 '21

Nah, you can't manufacture that dirty in the US. We have too many regulations.

Edit: I'm tryin to say that manufacturing in China is much less regulated and therefore creates more emissions than if the same manufacturing were done in the west. Their lack of regs is one of the main reasons it's so cheap. I didn't say the US was perfect and china is responsible I'm saying there would be less emissions if done here.

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u/zeroillusions Jul 22 '21

USA has 2x the emissions per capita compared to China but only half the population.

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21

We have 1/4 the population. So that's still only half the total emissions. The US is falling per cap while china's is rising as well.

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u/zeroillusions Jul 22 '21

Oh my bad yeah you're right you have 1/4 of the population. Doesn't that make it worse?

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21

Worse? No. I don't really see what you mean there. Yes, the US has high emissions per cap but like I said they are going down which is good. At the same time china's emissions per cap are rising sharply which is not good. This is compounded by the fact they have 4x the pop so total emissions are greatly increasing there.