Yeah, you're right. We should think about these things in a much more holistic way. It's crazy how a lot of people do not care.
It's stupid too, as many people already complain about smog in big cities and so on, but don't really do anything for it to change.
On a global scale, we can do without cars running on fossil fuel for sure, which would already have a great positive effect.
Even if Europe really tries hard to reduce the emissions,
there are many thirs world countries that will use up
the less costly fossile fuels then, as long as they are still
available.
The third world countries don't even come close to our fossil fuel consumption though, so this is something of a non-argument. In fact, we pay third world countries so that we may use up their 'right' to pollute the earth.
There are of course industrialized parts in the world where the technological level isn't very high and because of that pollution is much worse than over here, but basically we're worse. After all, we
do have the money and technology to change, which can't be said of many 3rd world countries.
