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What? My point is that people tend to turn emissions into a pissing contest about which country is emitting more, and it always becomes a debate of total emiss
by enraged_camel 9mo ago
What?
My point is that people tend to turn emissions into a pissing contest about which country is emitting more, and it always becomes a debate of total emission vs. per capita, because it's ultimately a political issue.
What I'm saying is that total emissions are what matter for climate change.
- Y-bar 9mo agoTotal emissions matter on a global scale. To know approximately how much each nation ought to adjust their emissions we need to look at per capita adjusted for imports/exports for products and services consumed locally but created remotely.
- ceejayoz 9mo agoYou said per capita doesn’t matter. If China split evenly into two new countries, each country’s emissions are half what China’s was. This is why per capita matters.