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China is the world's largest emitter, and the emissions are growing. Place your effort where the problem is. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/12/economy/china-carb

• tzs 3y ago
  The atmosphere does a very good job of mixing CO2, so that a ton of emitted CO2 does the same harm to everyone no matter who emitted it. It follows then that unless you can make a good case that some people have some sort of natural or divine right to emit more CO2 (and thus cause more harm) than do others the correct way to allocate whatever total worldwide CO2 budget we have is to give each person an equal share. It follows then that each country's fair share of the worlds total CO2 budget is proportional to the population of the country. China has 4.2x the population of the US, but is only emitting 2.2x as much. Both are over their far share of the world's current emissions, but the US is more over. China's emitting 85% more than their fair share. The US is emitting 207% more than their fair share.