Let's Blow up Luxury Emissions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : He cites the pivotal distinction, formulated by philosopher Henry Shue, between luxury and subsistence emissions: "The former happen because rich people like to wallow in the pleasure of their rank, the latter because poor people try to survive." Peasants in India using coal to cook bread or at night getting the dim light from a dying bulb fed by a coal-fired power plant are confined in their choices because the alternative for poor people locked in the fossil economy, as Malm bluntly explains, "might be no stove and no lamp."

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