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queenkjuulyesterday at 3:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

China produces a lot less carbon per capita than we do


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wing-_-nutsyesterday at 3:59 PM

Global warming doesn't care about 'per capita'.

Edit: Individuals do not build coal power plants, utilities (and therefore, governments) do. India and China are continuing to build fossil fuel power generation. Global warming does not care about 'fairness', global warming cares about co2 PPM in the atmosphere. When we address climate change, we have to do so at the government level, or we mine as well not bother.

The whole idea that we should look at 'emissions per capita' or 'historical emissions' in the interest of fairness is simply giving a license to governments to kill genuinely poor people in the third world.

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wkat4242yesterday at 4:21 PM

And they make most of the stuff we buy, including the climate emissions involved in making them.