The summit has sought to reframe the African continent, which has enormous amounts of clean energy minerals and renewable energy sources, as less of a victim of climate change driven by the world’s biggest economies and more of the solution.

But investment in the continent in exchange for the ability to keep polluting elsewhere has angered some in Africa who prefer to see China, the United States, India, the European Union and others rein in their emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.

“We reject forced solutions on our land,” Priscilla Achakpa, founder of the Nigeria-based Women Environmental Programme, told summit participants on the event’s final day. She urged the so-called “Global North” to “remove yourself from the perspective of the colonial past.”

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    India and China have essentially said they don’t give a fuck and will keep burning coal till they run out of coal…

    The other big contributer is shipping cheap junk from those same countries to the Western wealthier countries.

    That we can do something about by slapping large tarrifs on all that sweatshop shit.

    Do that and those countries will change their tune, because their own citizens are too poor for their economies to be self sufficient.

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        So after reading the article, there is no information as to what China is spending $6 trillion on. The vast majority of the article discusses how China is building a really long road and that they will be depending on coal until at least 2050.

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          Stimulating internal production is not a goal anyone should have - global isolation hurts citizens.

          Bad things happening is not a reason to kneecap your economy.

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            Lol, yeah…

            Because the people working those sweatshops have such great lives too.

            Those aren’t “suicide nets” in iPhone factories, they’re “communal hammocks”.

            And the countries that don’t make anything anymore so they have crazy unemployment levels can just print money so their citizens don’t starve too!

            It’s so easy, why isn’t a smart person like you running the economy of every nation?

            /s

            At least lemmy still has a block button.

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              Because the people working those sweatshops have such great lives too.

              Their lives are demonstrably better than before those opportunities arrived, and the increased wealth enables governments to grow inclusive institutions that ban sweatshops and still benefit from the relative value of the US dollar to local currency

              People with my views do run the economy. This is economic orthodoxy.

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                So you’re equivalency is saying that slaves had it better in America than they did in Africa?

                Doooood. 🤮

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                  No I didn’t bring up slavery at all, and equating paid jobs that do not exist until a company invests in a developing nation with slavery is disgustingly offensive.

                  Developing nations are developing because of outside investment, and equating that to the rape of their lands and people that was chattel slavery is a monstrous thing to do.