I don't understand this - emitting an "average" amount of carbon is still too much. I mean, if a person is so poor that they are emitting less than the average

I don't understand this - emitting an "average" amount of carbon is still too much. I mean, if a person is so poor that they are emitting less than the average amount emitted before the industrial revolution, then yes, maybe they should come out ahead. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're not aiming at a comfortable rate of adding carbon to the atmosphere, we actually have to stop increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.