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'per capita' is a manipulative and unproductive metric.
by papermachete 7y ago
'per capita' is a manipulative and unproductive metric.
- redavni 7y agoChinese people exhale less CO2. Free speech causes global warming.
- ben_w 7y agoIs it worse than ‘per country’? The problem isn’t going to be changed one way or the other by, e.g., China breaking apart into 34 provinces, nor by the union of literally every nation into a world government. (Well, except for the economic impact of those scenarios). The optimal place to focus effort is wherever a marginal unit of effort has the most impact. I’m not aware of any research that estimates that, and while I won’t be surprised if some cities in China are more important targets of effort than some cities in the USA, I’d also expect a unit of intervention in a randomly selected city in the USA to be more effective than “the same”[0] intervention in a randomly selected city in China. [0] adjusted for exchange rates, etc.