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Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate

Posted by samzenpus on from the picking-up-the-bill dept.

merbs writes: Climate change wasn't created equal. Rich, industrialized nations have contributed most of the pollution and gone way over their carbon budgets—while smaller, poorer, and more agrarian countries are little to blame. The subsequent warming will, naturally, impact everyone, often hitting the poorer countries harder. So should rich countries pay up? Researcher Damon Matthews has quantified how much historically polluting nations owe their global neighbors—and it's a lot.

2 of 528 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Devil's advocate by war4peace · · Score: 5, Informative

    Disregard the above, I'm an idiot.

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    ...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
  2. Re:US Bill is only 4 Trillion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    negative according to the study, since they still havent hit breakpoint.