Jaime Roberts
Jul 22, 2021

Changing social behavior based on ‘climate change’ is problematic. It misses the forest for the trees. Focusing on one tree, while the rest of the forest is burning, is pure stupidity. There are real issues for climate change that we must address and talking about minimal issues ignores the 800 lbs gorilla in the room. China now accounts for about 36% of global CO2 emissions while the U.S. only 14%. They have built thousands of coal fire plants in the last 20 years, while the U.S. has slowly decreased coal production. The real problem we are not tackling is how is the developing world going to develop modern cities and not destroy the environment? What happens when India and Africa follow the Chinese model and build thousands of coal fire plants? This is the real problem, not fireworks in San Francisco.

Jaime Roberts
Jaime Roberts

Written by Jaime Roberts

Architect writing about environmental design in an age of climate change.

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