> If we hold people accountable for their offspring then the poorest have orders of magnitude more heirs and thus should multiply their emissions. So how far b

> If we hold people accountable for their offspring then the poorest have orders of magnitude more heirs and thus should multiply their emissions. So how far back should we consider heirs? Primordial soup is ultimately responsible for all emissions? Surely it's more interesting to look at actual emission rates than to disavow personal choices based on how many children my grandparents had. What these numbers show is that despite being prone to having more children, the poor account for much less emissions than the rich. That in some centuries there may be so many poor people as to offset this difference is a) speculation and b) doesn't answer the question of who is responsible for emissions and what segment of the population we can address now to best mitigate the problem.