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Per-capita pollution in America is the highest in the world. 1 American produces 16.5 tons of CO2 on average, 40 times of that of Uganda, Rwanda, Chad & Somal

Per-capita pollution in America is the highest in the world. 1 American produces 16.5 tons of CO2 on average, 40 times of that of Uganda, Rwanda, Chad & Somalia combined America has about 330 million people. Convert that into a population normalized for polluting capacity, it's population will be Billions. It's time developed countries take responsibility and lead in tackling climate change. Because they are responsible for the bulk of it in the past 10 decades. Edit : Per-Capita pollution from India is 1.7. Normalizing Indian population for polluting capacity, it is just about 120 Million. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/10296/economics/top-co2-polluters-highest-per-capita/ https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/10296/economics/top-co2-p... edit 2: To clarify a bit, the per-capita pollution for whole of sub-saharan Africa is about 0.834. Thus on average, normalizing Americas population to match Africas per-capita pollution levels, population of America will be 6 BILLION. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=ZG https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

Udik 6y ago
My point is that if you are worried- or tell me to worry- about climate change because of the negative impacts it's going to have on societies (especially the poorest ones) because of how it affects basic resources (water, agricultural yields) causing conflicts and migrations, then you should be much more worried about the direct impacts of a doubling of population in those societies. Instead you measure the impact of climate change in terms of negative impacts on society, but when you are put in front of something else that has huge, obvious and direct negative effects on those same metrics, then you seem only interested in how it affects climate change! Ah, and as an aside: sure, one billion more Africans are no problem for the climate, as long as they remain shit poor. I assume you have a plan to ensure that too, in the next thirty years.

Udik 6y ago

My point is that if you are worried- or tell me to worry- about climate change because of the negative impacts it's going to have on societies (especially the poorest ones) because of how it affects basic resources (water, agricultural yields) causing conflicts and migrations, then you should be much more worried about the direct impacts of a doubling of population in those societies. Instead you measure the impact of climate change in terms of negative impacts on society, but when you are put in front of something else that has huge, obvious and direct negative effects on those same metrics, then you seem only interested in how it affects climate change! Ah, and as an aside: sure, one billion more Africans are no problem for the climate, as long as they remain shit poor. I assume you have a plan to ensure that too, in the next thirty years.