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What does that have to do with anything? You've completely ignored the concept of what "per capita" even means in this context. Person B could be in Country 1 w
by 24gttghh 7y ago
What does that have to do with anything? You've completely ignored the concept of what "per capita" even means in this context. Person B could be in Country 1 with low per capita emissions, or Person B could be in Country 2 with high per capita emissions. It doesn't change the fact that on average, individual people in Country 2 emit more CO2 emissions than people from Country 1...
Also, deciding to not do something positive because other people are still doing something negative somewhere else is a shitty argument.
- 75dvtwin 7y ago@gttghh, your "... is a shitty argument ... " critique, is insulting. This is also against HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >" When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." "
- 24gttghh 7y agoI called their argument shitty, not them personally. I stand by my statement.