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You're giving me this mental image of a fat king stuffing his face, lamenting how the starving villagers will eventually eat all the food. The difference in po
by klmadfejno 6y ago
You're giving me this mental image of a fat king stuffing his face, lamenting how the starving villagers will eventually eat all the food.
The difference in population growth rate between high income countries and low income countries is about 2.5x. I'd bet on income inequality and carbon consumption changing at a higher rate than that, and frankly wouldn't think the actual takeaway of this headline would change if the top 1% had half, instead of double, the carbon contribution of a group that is 50x their size.
- maerF0x0 6y ago> is about 2.5x That's 2.5x per generation, compounding. How many generations do we need to consider?
- klmadfejno 6y ago1) The population is expected to cap off before we ever reach a population at which the bottom 50% consume as much as the top 1% at current rates. In fact,the population is expected to never reach a value where the bottom 50% then consume as the top 1% does now, at current rates. That is, we don't expect the population to ever double. 2) The longterm equilibrium state is not relevant when the concern is about pressing climate concerns for this current century.