{"id":746063,"date":"2022-07-15T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=131456"},"modified":"2022-07-15T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T08:20:10","slug":"us-climate-expropriation-impacts-all-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/15\/us-climate-expropriation-impacts-all-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"US Climate Expropriation Impacts all Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> With its carbon footprint from 1990 to 2014, the US caused nearly $2 trillion in damages to other countries, finds a new analysis.<\/p>\n How much \u201caid\u201d, in all forms, the country has provided to other countries? The motive, character, use, implication, beneficiary of the so-called aid are not questioned\/discussed here.<\/p>\n This is the face of carbon footprint, actually, climate-plunder\/expropriation, which is global and impacting the entire humanity, and all lives. This is expropriation of climate from the entire humanity; and the humanity is paying with life.<\/p>\n The colossal amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) released by the US over the period cited above has led to natural disasters, and economic damages including crop failures in countries, resulting in $1.9 trillion in lost income globally, the report found.<\/p>\n The study by scientists from Dartmouth College and published in the journal Climatic Change<\/em> on July 12, 2022 (Callahan, C.W., Mankin, J.S. \u201cNational attribution of historical climate damages\u201d, Climatic Change<\/em> 172, 40 (2022). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10584-022-03387-y<\/a>).<\/p>\n Northerly countries<\/strong><\/p>\n The study finds:<\/p>\n The scientists calculated resulting damages \u201cusing empirical temperature-growth relationship\u201d after combining historical climate data with climate models and economic information.<\/p>\n In poor and poorer countries, the impact of climate expropriation is deadly: hundreds die every year, thousands turn destitute and migrants, and millions face uncertainty in terms of livelihood, shelter, health and education.<\/p>\n The study report said:<\/p>\n Sue for climate-created harms <\/strong><\/p>\n The study findings, as the scientists claim, could provide a basis for poorer countries to sue for climate-related harms.<\/p>\n The study report said:<\/p>\n Previous efforts have been hamstrung by a lack of scientific evidence linking individual carbon emitters to \u201cthe downstream impacts of warming.\u201d These countries may be able to take legal action. Such methods of placing blame for climate harms can also be applied to individual corporations, the researchers point out.<\/p>\n Veil of deniability lifted <\/strong><\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n Disproportionate contributions: The top10 <\/strong><\/p>\n It said:<\/p>\n Pakistan and Bolivia: A comparison<\/strong><\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n Gap in responsibility<\/strong><\/p>\n It said:<\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n Developing countries<\/strong><\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n Political choice<\/strong><\/p>\n It said:<\/p>\n Warmer and poorer<\/strong><\/p>\n It said:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Income distribution of damages caused and experienced. Bar heights show the average GDPpc change experienced by countries in each income quintile that are attributable to the average emitter in each income quintile (colors). Error bars show\u2009+\u2009\/\u2009\u2212\u2009one standard deviation of the mean across the distribution of pattern scaling coefficients, FaIR realizations, and damage function parameters (Methods). Inset map shows each country\u2019s income quintile, calculated using 1990\u20132014 average GDPpc.<\/em> [Source: The study report]<\/p>\n The results shown in Fig. 4 use territorial emissions accounting over 1990\u20132014 as in our [the study] baseline analysis, but many high-income, high-emitting countries have also imported additional emissions through their demand for products from the developing world.<\/p>\n At the expense of the poorest people <\/strong><\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n High-income countries harmed low-income countries<\/strong><\/p>\n The study report said:<\/p>\n The scientists claim their \u201cframework shows that such linkages can be quantified using state-of-the-art climate models and empirical approaches and that we can process-trace exactly who has caused economic losses from their emissions, and how much.\u201d<\/p>\n Firms, and farmers <\/strong><\/p>\n The report said:<\/p>\n The findings, etc. of the above mentioned study are significant. The study findings show that climate movement, poor peasants and agricultural labor movement, working class movement, rights movement, anti-imperialism movement, these are parts of democratic movement, even, rich farmers\u2019 movement, have ground to raise climate related demands; and demands are political. The politics of the exploited classes have no scope to ignore the issue of climate, to be exact, climate expropriation.<\/p>\n The issue is also found in many other studies. A 2012 study (Wei T, Yang S, Moore JC, Shi P, Cui X, Duan Q, Xu B, Dai Y, Yuan W, Wei X et al (2012), Developed and developing world responsibilities for historical climate change and CO2<\/sub> mitigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America<\/em>, 109 (32) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1203282109) said:<\/p>\n Seven years later, another study (Diffenbaugh NS, Burke M (2019), Global warming has increased global economic inequality, Proc Natl Acad Sci<\/em>, 116(20) PMID: 31010922, PMCID: PMC6525504, DOI: 10.1073\/pnas.1816020116) said:<\/p>\n Understanding the causes of economic inequality is critical for achieving equitable economic development.<\/p>\n To investigate whether global warming has affected the recent evolution of inequality, the study combined counterfactual historical temperature trajectories from a suite of global climate models with extensively replicated empirical evidence of the relationship between historical temperature fluctuations and economic growth. Together, these allowed the scientists to generate probabilistic country-level estimates of the influence of anthropogenic climate forcing on historical economic output.<\/p>\n The study found:<\/p>\n As example, the study cited the following facts:<\/p>\n This year, a study (Beusch, L., Nauels, A., Gudmundsson, L.\u00a0et al.<\/em>, Responsibility of major emitters for country-level warming and extreme hot years, Commun Earth Environ<\/em>\u00a03,\u00a07, January 6, 2022, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-021-00320-6<\/a>) quantified contributions of the five largest emitters \u2013 China, US, EU-27, India, Russia \u2013 to project 2030 country-level warming and extreme hot years with respect to pre-industrial climate.<\/p>\n The study found:<\/p>\n The study report said:<\/p>\n There are, according to the report, \u201csmall countries with large per capita emissions, such as Switzerland and similar-size countries\u201d also. These countries are, the report said, to \u201cpursue more stringent mitigation efforts\u201d.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no scope to confine the climate crisis issue within the narrow discussion of climate-only, if the findings cited above are considered from people\u2019s, especially the poor, working people\u2019s perspective. The issue is not also to be handled by NGOS only. Rather, the issue should be handled by political organizations\/parties, as this issue (i) involves capitals, (ii) capitals\u2019 conflict with people, (iii) is political, and (iv) this involves political decision. These make the issue of climate one of the major and immediate tasks of political organizations, especially, the political organizations of people, especially the poor.<\/p>\n The climate-reality is a reflection of climate plunder. Capitals involved in this climate business, and, to be specific, the world capitalist system is just expropriation and plunder of the climate. This is in addition to appropriation of surplus labor the world around. In the case of climate, it\u2019s not only the labor chained by capital that pays for capitals\u2019 climate plunder, but the entire population, parts of the population don\u2019t always sale their labor power to capital, makes the payment. Even, deterioration of climate harms labor productivity, an issue of concern to related capitals. The findings of the study also help identify contradictions related to climate and the world capitalist system. There are people on one pole and climate-expropriating capital on another. Considering the issues, the new study cited above is significant as climate expropriation by capital has turned out as crime against humanity.<\/p>\n Note:<\/em><\/strong> Mostly quoted, directly\/indirectly, from the studies.<\/em><\/p>The post US Climate Expropriation Impacts all Humanity<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S.-attributable climate damages. (a) Ensemble mean GDPpc changes in each country attributable to U.S. emissions, over 1990\u20132014 with territorial emissions accounting and a short-run (contemporaneous) damage function. Missing data (white countries) denotes countries without continuous GDPpc data from 1990 to 2014.\u00a0b,\u00a0c\u00a0U.S.-attributable damages in the five countries with the greatest GDPpc percent decreases (b) and percent [\u2026]<\/p>\n The post US Climate Expropriation Impacts all Humanity<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,11839,776,2166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746064,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746063\/revisions\/746064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nU.S.-attributable climate damages. (a<\/strong>) Ensemble mean GDPpc changes in each country attributable to U.S. emissions, over 1990\u20132014 with territorial emissions accounting and a short-run (contemporaneous) damage function. Missing data (white countries) denotes countries without continuous GDPpc data from 1990 to 2014.\u00a0b<\/strong>,\u00a0c<\/strong>\u00a0U.S.-attributable damages in the five countries with the greatest GDPpc percent decreases (b<\/strong>) and percent increases (c<\/strong>). The black lines show the mean, the boxes denote the 95% ensemble range, and the colored portions denote the additive fraction of each 95% range due to each.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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