And yet when the subject of climate change comes up in discussion in wealthy, industrialized countries, the instant response, very often, is that it’s all China’s fault (and India’s fault and Brazil’s fault and so on). Why bother cutting our own emissions when everyone knows that the fast developing economies are the real problem, opening more coal plants every month than we could ever close?40 This argument is made as if we in the West are mere spectators to this reckless and dirty model of economic growth. As if it was not our governments and our multinationals that pushed a model of
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