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Given that the largest source of CO2 is coal, and coal global reserves, even if vastly over estimated, are still enough to put a lot more CO2 into the atmosphere in the next century, after oil and gas consumption has long since declined, and China is rapidly becoming the largest consumer of coal, it would be in all our interests if the Chinese financial bubble burst.

On that basis the best thing we can do for the environment is to default on our debts at the national level and trigger a global collapse of the financial system.

The Chinese $3T will be then be so much hot air.

However, the remaining oil and gas would be up for grabs by whoever has the biggest guns...
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RalphW wrote:On that basis the best thing we can do for the environment is to default on our debts at the national level and trigger a global collapse of the financial system.

The Chinese $3T will be then be so much hot air.

However, the remaining oil and gas would be up for grabs by whoever has the biggest guns...
But who could grab it if the world's financial system has broken?
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