Should the West lead climate action? – Today’s CLIDEMY poll

Should the West lead climate action? – Today’s CLIDEMY poll

It’s well known that most of our greenhouse gases hanging around in the atmosphere came from the “west” or more generally, the “developed” countries.

And this should not be surprising. Look at these stats.

Per capita consumption of electricity in the US or Canada is about 3 times that of China, 10 times that of India, and an astonishing 750 times that of a Somalian – an American consumes energy in half a day what a Somalian does in an entire year (how exactly do they live out there?). European countries fare better, but only relative to Canada & the US – they still use considerably more energy compared to the so called “developing” and “under-developed” countries.

Countries such as Somalia might be exceptions and could perhaps bias our analysis, but there is little doubt that the “developed” (the ???????????? developed) countries have been consuming energy and emitting CO2 as if there we no tomorrow – and there might not be one if we don’t do something now!

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But who is leading the climate tech movement today? Who is setting the agenda and global frameworks? Who is at the forefront of developing the technologies and solutions for climate action? The same countries that got us here on climate – North America & the EU (the exception is China, where a significant amount of climate tech research or at least implementation is taking place on scaling the solutions)

As we contemplate the path to a sustainable future, the question arises whether the developed countries, the super emitters, should be allowed to take the lead in combating climate change.

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