you don’t expect leftists to actually argue with your position when they can make up one for you to argue with… do you?
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And what are you going to do about it?
You guys are always going on about how great Mexico is, so I get it.
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Yup. A great example of spin and bias, and not actual reporting.
Why else would you point out Mexico is going with coal?
What do you expect “developing nations” to do about it?
Working class people don’t suffer more from natural emergencies that wealthier people?
Doesn’t matter.
You’re dealing with libs here. Putting words into others’ mouths is de rigueur among libs. That, plus using those inserted words to denigrate you for the words they fabricated.
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So what is the POV of this thread’s author?
Mexico sucks?
We should follow Mexico’s example?
Nothing we do matters because developing nations gonna do whatever’s cheapest and easiest (otherwise known as the Mwevans guide to dating)?
Something else?
Why should they? If a rich person owns a huge farm, they could lose it in extended hypothetical imaginary droughts or floods that don’t exist. A working day laborer just moves on.
Just saying you can make up whatever argument you want when its based on nothing.
No. Just like in the US, poor people have a much higher incidence of death disease related to pollution than other socioeconomic classes. It’s not even a question.
Now THIS is what I call spin. 
With wealth comes options and security.
Anyone who tries to say otherwise is spinning a yarn.
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Even when multimillionaires declare bankruptcy, they still live better than the poor and middle class.
I don’t know why this insistence to claim they “live just the same life and are as vulnerable as the rest of us”.
And somehow they’re more constrained while the “day laborer” is just happy go lucky and so free to move on.
No they aren’t…it’s because they aren’t that is the main reason people want to become wealthy.
Not really it all depends on the scale and this is a global problem so the west can clean it up over here and cut back on fossils while the east is frying the planet at a much bigger and faster magnitude than we are able to do good.
It doesn’t work everyone has to be on board it can’t just be western Europe and North America it has to be global. Guam can go green the world pats themselves on the back while behemoths like China, India, and Russia burn the globe. As an author once said “The world can completely go to hell without America lifting a finger” when debating with someone that blamed the worlds woes on America.
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But the “journalist” isn’t talking about pollution. He’s talking about global warming.
Which again, affects poor people disproportionately more.
Anymore when that topic comes up I don’t do the “do you believe in it” like it’s the Easter Bunny or something supernatural. It’s more like “do you understand it”.
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The Earth is to be destroyed by an asteroid. Women, minorities and the poor to be damaged most.
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Let’s dial it back to realistic scenarios, like a hurricane. Who do you think has more trouble recovering from a hurricane hitting New Orleans? The poor people that can’t afford to evacuate and repair? Or the rich who can? Having seen it first hand after a hurricane, the rich neighborhoods get their roofs repaired within weeks. The poor still have the blue tarps up months later in many cases.
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I’d certainly run a generator on producer gas from coal.
Anyone who doesn’t accept this should just give up.
This is not “higher corporate taxes are better/worse.” This is “the earth is round/flat.”
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