The Problem with Global Cooperation

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I'm involved in a nuclear company. We were going to build our first one in China and there were lots of people in the US that said, how dare you build it in China? And I said, because we all share the same atmosphere. Now as it turns out, that project didn't go forward and we're currently trying to build a new plant in Wyoming. You have this issue that the developed countries, the world, the United States and the UK is an example. We've both been burning lots of fossil fuels for 150 years at least. But yet we want to tell China and India what to do. They should not do that. It's mostly this insanely tragic human and

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