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If all he does is cooking food on fire, he definitely won’t have a high per capita score, per capita by definition gives you an average. If he does below averag
by kaba0 3y ago
If all he does is cooking food on fire, he definitely won’t have a high per capita score, per capita by definition gives you an average. If he does below average than your average western citizen, the score of his country will be less of that.
We obviously have to account for it per capita — you would surely not allow as little CO2 emission for China as you would to, say, Hungary. Like, that would be completely unfair.
- geraldwhen 3y agoChina and India have over a billion people. “Fair” doesn’t matter. Impact matters.
- ben_w 3y ago"Fair" is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for cooperation, which itself is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for solving the problem. It's also much easier to convince someone that "no more X for you" is fair if you have a cheaper and better alternative to X. We're getting there for that.
- manquer 3y agoIf the world was a democracy, the needs of the many would outweigh the needs of the few . Countries are very arbitrary lines on a geopolitical map. Take Europe and India, they have roughly similar landmass , number of people and linguistic diversity so why European states get their own measures and Indian states do not ? If you don’t measure per capita , you are effectively seeing all humans are not equal, some have more rights and privileges than others , that is dangerously close to how slavery operated
- kaba0 3y agoSo you get to have a larger economic footprint because you are not Chinese or Indian?