The wealthiest countries spend twice as much on border security as climate change
Well, of course - you’ve got to keep out all the people displaced by climate change! (And thus, this will only get worse.)
The US still has them beat in multiple ways. China only really started emitting in the last 20 years, whereas the US has historical emissions that more than make up the difference even without going back too far. And per-capita, the US is still more than twice China’s numbers. So looking just at the current numbers, and numbers per country, isn’t remotely fair.
This is crazy to me, especially looking at places that are seeing their highest covid death numbers (some US locales and the UK) while also talking about the pandemic being over (though this seems to be worse in the UK than the US).
I’m wondering if it’ll ever be over, or it’ll be a warning parallel to climate change - we’ll never “build back” because we’ll actually just be in constant decline, spending all our resources and effort (not) dealing with that.
