Comment by enraged_camel

Comment by enraged_camel 4 hours ago

2 replies

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 4 hours ago

Total 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 4 hours ago

You 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.