During the negotiations around the Paris Agreement, the key was to get China and India bought in on them, taking responsibility for reducing their emissions, setting standards, despite the fact that that Most of the existing greenhouse gases up there were created by the west during the long period of our industrialization. I could have gone to President Xi or Modi and said, no, we're only going to do something if you do exactly what we do. (38:05–38:16)
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Asserts that the majority of existing greenhouse gases were created by Western countries during industrialization.
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