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China and India have over a billion people. “Fair” doesn’t matter. Impact matters.
by geraldwhen 3y ago
China 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?