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ialsoagree t1_jdyl5yu wrote

Reply to comment by Frostcrisp in The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return by Vucea

China is not emitting "the vast majority" - they're not even emitting the majority.

Words have meaning, and majority means more than half. China emits around 30% of the total CO2e emissions - not even remotely close to the majority.

The word you are looking for is plurality. China emits a plurality of CO2e. With the US being the only country remotely close behind at 14%. India, the third highest, emits about half of what the US emits, or less than a quarter of what China emits.

The three countries combined equal the majority of global emissions.

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ToothlessGrandma t1_jdyl0pt wrote

Reply to comment by Frostcrisp in The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return by Vucea

It really doesn't make sense and speaks to the volume of incompetence on the global stage. China is investing in 90 new coal plants. 90. Instead of investing in renewable energy, they're doing everything they can to contribute to global warming.

It's super short term profits over long term viability and stability. It's insane really.

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The_Most_Superb t1_jdygd3p wrote

Reply to comment by juntareich in The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return by Vucea

Your right, that analogy isn’t right. When comparing the average knowledge of an average adult to the subject matter experts of billion dollar corporations and the thousands of careers dedicated to climate research I should have said: would you blame a bunch of amebas for getting squished by oil tycoon’s boot? Blaming individual consumers for entire systems planned, created, and executed by corporations is ridiculous. “If you alone gave up red meat you could counter act the Exxon Valdeez! Or maybe if you don’t buy things from Amazon, you’ll save the polar bears!” The big polluters won’t stop unless regulations step in to make them stop. The government is in control of the regulations that make up the market that these companies operate in. The government could end subsidies for factory farming meat, and oil and gas, but they don’t. They see these companies giving out cigarettes at preschools and look the other way.

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The_Most_Superb t1_jdydskl wrote

Reply to comment by bigapewhat089 in The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return by Vucea

The parents are part the government in that analogy! Your original comment blames the kids for not turning down the cigarettes. My point is that it is a failure of the system for allowing it to happen in the first place. Also just to be clear, the cigarettes are pollution and the kids are individual citizens. We need to regulate the companies causing the pollution. Blaming the individual consumer is exactly what polluters want you to do to distract you from their enormous contribution to destroying the planet.

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LS5645 t1_jdycsye wrote

Reply to comment by CatandmeVsSociety in Printed organs becoming more useful than bio ones by TheRappingSquid

The body pretty much always views it as a foreign object unfortunately, which means the current organ transplants (such as kidneys) will only last about 10 years or so before they get worn down by the body constantly attacking them (this is even with immunosuppressants), then the patient is back to their old state or possibly even worse.

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ksmizify t1_jdybw82 wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_HandSmall in Scientists discover how cancer cells evade immune system by BousWakebo

Lol you’ve obviously never tried to publish in Nature or Science. There is plenty of excellent science not published in these two journals, and plenty of journals with near or equal impact factors.

Love, a cancer immunotherapy first or senior author on several Nature and Science papers who only goes there if I have a lot of time to spend on revisions…and $11k for the open access fee.

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