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Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate
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.
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1. Showing the world what a constitutional representative democracy can do for governments, not to mention the free pursuit of happiness and private property can do for wealth creation.
2. Providing a destination for millions of immigrants who where allowed to come here, work hard, make money and obtain property. Immigrants who where allowed to become citizens and who's children automatically became citizens because they where born here.
3. Inventing the airplane, assembly line manufacturing, solid state electronics, digital electronics, integrated circuits, microprocessors, many petroleum based products, the bulk of the modern pharmaceutical advances and a whole host of things that has made life possible for millions and easier for hundreds of millions more.
4. Being the reserve currency of choice around the word for the better part of the last 100 years, by providing financial stability to not just ourselves but the whole world.
5. Providing BILLIONS of foreign aid annually, disaster relief and supplies on a regular basis though out the world without demanding to be paid in return.
6. Spending our resources, money and blood during WW1 and stopping the Germans in their quest to dominate Europe, not because it would have affected us all that much, but because it would have affected millions of Europeans greatly.
7. Committing resources, economy, industrial production, money and even more blood during WW2 to protect Britain and liberate the bulk of Europe from Nazi rule, then after capturing all this territory and paying for it in US blood, returning it to it's rightful owners and helping to rebuild by providing resources, taking only enough land to bury our dead in return. For liberating the Pacific including parts of China and protecting other countries in the area from being dominated by the aggressor Japan, yet returning even Japan to self rule. A conflict born out of the mismanagement of Europe after WW1 and mistakes which where NOT ours.
8. For out building, out flanking and overthrowing the old Russian empire and liberating the remaining remnants of Europe from being ruled by others.
9. For NOT using our second to none military forces to just take whatever land and resources we wanted or needed, not subjugating the world to live under OUR rules, but affording everyone the ideal to determine for themselves what they want.
So, for the above reasons, don't give me this "we owe the world" tripe because the truth is they owe US. We've more than paid what ever debt you can conjure up a reason to lay at our doorstep though our history though actual money, resources and blood. In reality the world owes US a debt it could never repay. But true to history, we are not demanding payment, nor are we forcing payment of these debts, not that we don't have both the right and the ability to make the rest of the world pay, but because that's what we do, that's what we've always done. So take your perceived "debt" you think we owe and go home, or we can start discussing what you own us from history...
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Considering how much the USA contributes to the world in so many areas, through humanitarian aide, jobs, science, opportunity, medicine, education, and defending other countries with our blood, I'd say the balance is zero. This researcher should collect his fee for another pointless study, then disappear into oblivion.