Global warming in a no-Communism scenario?

CaliGuy

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Had the the Bolsheviks failed to seize power in Russia in the late 1910s (I believe that David T has previously outlined some ways to do this), what would global warming have looked like throughout the 20th and 21st centuries?

Basically, the reason that I am curious about this is because Communism slowed down economic growth in the countries where Communists were in power (and if the Communists don't seize power in Russia, they probably don't seize power anywhere or at least in any large country). Plus, the strength of Communism worldwide might have conceivably caused some non-Communist countries--such as India--to pursue socialist economic policies which also slowed down economic growth there.

Anyway, what would global warming look like in a scenario where Communism continued to merely be the stuff of academics rather than of national leaders and policymakers? After all, if countries such as Russia, China, and India become wealthy and industrialized earlier than they did in our TL, then there would be more global CO2 emissions occurring earlier. In turn, this would create a more severe global warming problem earlier for humanity--at a time when humanity had less powerful technology (in comparison to today) to deal with this problem.
 
Arguably, yes global warming might have been worse but, on the other hand, WWI derailed early attempts to utilise solar energy which India and South China at least would have strongly benefitted from.
Global ecology might have benefitted too from those countries being at least semi-democratic. The western democracies took at least some initiative to clean up their air and water and reduce pesticide use from the early 1960s onward. The Soviet Union took practically no such initiatives at all and China has really only started to introduce them in the past ten years.
Realistically India wouldn't significantly industrialise prior to the 1940s (assuming a C20th POD from OTL). This would grow more rapidly without the Licence Raj, but wouldn't be globally significant until the mid-late 1960s. China, it depends on whether the Japanese invade or not, but even best case significant industrialisation (again, assuming a C20th POD from OTL) wouldn't begin until the 1930s and would only be globally significant by the late 1950s.
And don't forget industrialisation also tends to slow population growth (or even enable the population to stagnate/decline) and utilise resources more efficiently as well -it isn't a totally negative force in respect of the environment. One coal-fired power plant significantly contributes to global warming yes, but so do the cook fires or stoves that a million odd people used before the power plant was constructed.
Such a TL would presumably have had fewer or briefer wars and possibly not as much population reduction of that kind (and the Spanish flu epidemic would probably not have killed nearly as many people without the WWI derived nutritional deficiencies in the general population) but would also have benefitted from no Cold War and the culture of scientific secrecy that arose out of that. Possibly some bright Russians of the 1930s -1960s or Chinese 1930s -1980s or Indians 1940s-1990s who were purged or massacred or just never got an opportunity to display their talents OTL as the economic and cultural circumstances weren't favourable (European Jews, Poles and anti-Nazis as well) will have further contributed to the sum of scientific knowledge to the extent that TTL has earlier solutions to some of our current problems?
 
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