When it comes to reducing climate change, countries that are already rich don't matter so much. They can reduce emissions without reducing their quality of life

When it comes to reducing climate change, countries that are already rich don't matter so much. They can reduce emissions without reducing their quality of life too much. But there are lots of countries in the world that are not at high GDP yet, but will be high GDP in the future. Because their GDP is not high, GDP growth does correlate very strongly with their quality of life. They are not going to want to delay their growth just because of climate change, and it's probably immoral to force them.