EDIT Ok so it’s just the trolly problem.

EDIT2 : AHA War Games 1983. “The only winning move is not to play.” (We might call this the final product of a lot of smart philosophical digestion, because it’s a famous movie). There’s always the perfectly valid option to ditch the riddle. (Because maybe the riddle is dumb, or maybe the riddle is no better than a thousand others, utilitywise )

    • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
      31·
      8 days ago

      China has the most people within its borders. Your logic seems to imply that dividing China into say 10 different states would solve the problem. A much better metric is per capita.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
      21·
      8 days ago
      1. Per capita it’s not, by far it’s not.
      2. Ever wondered why it has such emissions? Because it produce literally half of everything produced in the world, for usage of both you and me and everyone else. Sourcing of emissions by consumption make it way worse for west. Why? Capitalism, imperialist countries consume far more.
      3. Historical emissions. Wow. Even worse picture for the west. They don’t get to deindustrialise then whine about China’s emissions. Why? Capitalism again.
      4. Outsourcing production to cheaper countries isn’t ecologically friendly move. Capitalism again.
      5. China is the only country which consistently rolls out ecological initiatives on a systemic level, US dismantle even their own poor as shit regularions and euros set up the emission market and are trading it, pretending it’s meaningful. Capitalism again.