I'm With Stupid
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That's exactly it for a lot of people (not say it is for inbetween). First it was denial of the problem, then it was denial that humans were the cause, now it's the futility of doing anything. The tactics have changed as public opinion has, but the end goal of business as usual has remained.What do you want to do, give up?
As for the whole China issue, well it's worth mentioning that the USA's per capita consumption is over twice that of China's. I know per capita isn't of huge importance in this issue, but another issue is that while China does have a growing middle class, a large portion of China's CO2 emissions are presumably caused by factories making shit for us in the West. What we've basically done is outsourced a large part of our manufacturing to countries with more polluting energy sources. So encouraging people in the West to live a less wasteful lifestyle will have an effect beyond our own borders, because that's the nature of globalization. For those reasons, I don't think you can accuse her targeting of the USA to be misplaced. It doesn't mean that emerging economies aren't also an issue.