Thread: Any doubts about Climate Change?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Again, I cannot agree with you. Do you have some figures? Although I cannot give you a link with figures - they surely can be found - it's a very known fact that USA did not have any need to save energy since abundance of a pretty cheap sources around.

There were two reasons. One was a staggering amount of waste. The other was that the DDR had a large chemical industry, very energy consuming, again energy produced and consumed at staggering inefficiency.

The smoke I talked about was not primarily waste, it was lack of environmental conciousness. Poor quality sulphur rich coal burned everywhere, no filters whatsoever, problems rectified in the west decades earlier.