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Per-capita is not an interesting number here. We need to curb absolute emission and China doesn't get a pass because they pushed their population to 1.4 billion

• sokoloff 3y ago
  At the same time, we don’t get to talk down to or look down upon other countries who are doing less damage per-capita even as they (quite reasonably and entirely expectedly) seek to improve the living conditions of their people, even while making products (and the associated emissions) for our people to buy and outsource emissions counting to another country. We’ve been burning coal for hundreds of years and around 150 to make electricity. To suggest that others should do much less than we did and continue to do is, IMO, unreasonable to the point of being absurd.
  • WastingMyTime89 3y ago
    > We’ve been burning coal for hundreds of years and around 150 to make electricity. To suggest that others should do much less than we did and continue to do is, IMO, unreasonable to the point of being absurd. Well then I’m being absurd because we are sharing the same planet and the fact remains that they are stupidly burning coal. The fact that they are late to the party doesn’t magically make it stop affecting all of us. There is no place for virtue signalling here. At some point, some serious pressure will have to be put on countries which are not sorting their shit out or we will all pay the price.