I'm not saying they're more important. But as for why they are important, I think that there is some relationship between how people live and per-capita emissi

I'm not saying they're more important. But as for why they are important, I think that there is some relationship between how people live and per-capita emissions. So if you ignore the population size and only look at net emissions, the people in larger countries would be held to a higher standard than the people in the smaller countries.