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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.
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ceejayoz • yesterday at 12:57 PM
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.
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.