@Schouten_B @breadandcircuses Agreed. ANd we need an environmental equivalent of the Marshall Plan (DO I hear supprot for a #GreenMarshallPlan supporting developing countries to improve quality of life without massive GHG increases?

We could have interrupted deployment of coal plants (and all the non-GHG impacts) if it wasn't for the outsize political influence of the Fossil Carbon industries. (We enabled Chinas devastating Belt and ROad initiative (https://www.cfr.org/blog/climate-challenge-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative) because the US, Canada, EU, Japan did not want to support infrastructure development - the "market" would do that if it was worthwhile.)

The Climate Challenge and China's Belt and Road Initiative

BRI's fossil fuel investments will make combatting climate change more difficult. The U.S. needs to offer developing nations an alternative means of acquiring clean energy.

Council on Foreign Relations