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Originally Posted by photon
What if the methane being released by thawing permafrost offsets that and more?
In principle I don't think I would want secondary effects, feedback loops, etc that impact the global system but happen to fall in one country or another not to count for or against that country alone just by random happenstance of geographical location.
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Take a country like Brazil. If they protect their rain forests, their is an economic impact for that. Should they not receive some benefit for sacrificing that benefit for the benefit of the rest of the planet? Such as the ability to trade that off for resource development? In which case the carbon market should absolutely take that into account. It's a global balance sheet, and it is not jsut emmisions that have an effect on CO2 concentrations. We should be acknowledging, not ignoring that. But I'm sure that goes wildly against the "green" agendas that care so little about reality.