Climate Scientist: US Owes World 40 Trillion Dollars for Trashing Climate

[Exterous]

A perfect example of using the third world as a dumping ground by supposedly environmentally conscious 1st worlders

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/te...-has-become-africas-burden/article5038691.ece


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While not a problem for companies involved in the production your dumping example is a bit problematic. As someone who was the lead person involved in getting tons of electronic waste appropriately recycled it was surprisingly hard to find a company that had a trustworthy guarantee to not ship the parts to someplace like Guiyu. A lot of shipments make it to places like that because the local businesses in those countries are willing to lie about how they recycle the equipment. It's made more complicated by the various processing laws in the us and local state requirements. I forget which component but while investigating options I tracked a certain material path for one vendor from Michigan through 7 company transfers in 6 states before I hit a dead end in CA. I suspect it was at this point that it was sent overseas for 'recycling'. And all they need for a valid recycling rubber stamp from the US government are a few papers (that strike me as incredibly easy to get in a corrupt manner) from the foreign government supplied by the foreign company.

Its easier now but for a long time recycling was an exercise in frustration, obscurity, time, effort and skepticism. I don't even think a lot of those first companies even knew the parts going to China was an option as a final destination.

 

[GoPackGo]

The world owes the U.S. 1 quadrillion dollars for eradicating the world of some of it's most deadly diseases and the technological innovations that have allowed 7 billion people to live. I factored in the interest. Make your checks payable to "Your Daddy."

Don't forget the gazillions owed for saving the world from the Nazi's.

 

[WelshBloke]

Don't forget the gazillions owed for saving the world from the Nazi's.

Careful, the Germans will charge you for blowing up their stuff!

 

[PokerGuy]

USA Today
Poor nations want U.S. to pay reparations
US politicians see a tremendous opportunity for them, and their well connected friends, to make money by redistributing your wealth ...

Your politicians want you to pay your climate debt. Their friends, and their foundations, are wanting, and waiting, to redistribute your wealth to their third world political friends...

The Political Science is settled...

Uno

Ding ding ding, this is exactly what the target has been all along. Idiots keep wanting to push the "climate change" issue , claiming the science is settled etc, but without offering any real solutions other than just giving certain people more money and power. That's what all of it is about. The people that actually care about the environment are just useful pawns for those seeking to "redistribute" your money into their pockets.

 

[werepossum]

Here's info about the Daily Caller writer:

Obviously the evil Koch brothers have teamed up with the evil Heritage Foundation to ice in Antarctica as part of their dastardly, mustache-twirling, Spandex-clad plan to destroy the Earth.

However, your Operation Deny Inconvenient Truths continues to bravely saving the world.

 

[ElFenix]

Why does this only go back to 1960?

 

[OverVolt]

While not a problem for companies involved in the production your dumping example is a bit problematic. As someone who was the lead person involved in getting tons of electronic waste appropriately recycled it was surprisingly hard to find a company that had a trustworthy guarantee to not ship the parts to someplace like Guiyu. A lot of shipments make it to places like that because the local businesses in those countries are willing to lie about how they recycle the equipment. It's made more complicated by the various processing laws in the us and local state requirements. I forget which component but while investigating options I tracked a certain material path for one vendor from Michigan through 7 company transfers in 6 states before I hit a dead end in CA. I suspect it was at this point that it was sent overseas for 'recycling'. And all they need for a valid recycling rubber stamp from the US government are a few papers (that strike me as incredibly easy to get in a corrupt manner) from the foreign government supplied by the foreign company.

Its easier now but for a long time recycling was an exercise in frustration, obscurity, time, effort and skepticism. I don't even think a lot of those first companies even knew the parts going to China was an option as a final destination.

Thats not what the internet says and the internet knows everything mang.