I know that when I’m deciding how to invest, I always drive three towns over and ask the guy with the ‘92 Plymouth on blocks in his driveway what I should do.
That’s why you chumps have stocks, and I’ve got Desert Storm trading cards. We’ll see who’s retiring first, suckas.
“Ironically, López Obrador’s biggest constituency, the working class, may suffer the most from droughts, floods and other effects of a warming climate.”
Ironically, the author of that piece made that up.
Many on the right chide China and Mexico incessantly for their economics, human rights, corruption, disease, crime, etc. However, when either country does something they approve of, no matter how much disdain they might have, they reach a dilemma. How can a country that I loathe do something I approve?
The fallback is simple, either ignore all they dislike in favor of what they do, or use the “even the country I don’t like is doing it” argument. Both are equally fallacious. Both are as old as humankind.
That’s everywhere outside the west. As many point out it it’s a global problem it takes a global solution. I have heard many say “They need time to grow first”. I am not sure how that works out if you have John Kerry , AOC, and other politicians saying the world will end within a decade.
If one truly believes that they can’t at the same time think it’s ok to wait while developing nations use fossils and burn the planet.