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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Why is that so hard to fathom?
You have a total amount of CO2 emmisions and you have a population...
You don't find it interesting that the US, Brazil, Germany and Japan with very high emmissions have a fraction of the population of nations like India and China? I'm not saying those two nations will not increase over time or that they shouldn't be considered Annex 1 nations...
I am saying that I can now appreciate where Bush is coming from as well as the other side of the arguement.
Simply put there is a lot that could be done by everyone... the fact that the US wants status quo is just wrong... The fact that these two nations are not held accountable (for now... the literature suggests some Annex 2 nations will have to conform to targets in the next few years) is wrong.
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I think per-capita pollution might not be the right metric for measuring, but I'm not sure what it would be replaced with. The only thing I could think of would be pollution per acre/sq. mile but that would skew in favor of low population density countries (and would probably put Japan at the top for polluters).
Personally I'm not that worried about the environment, I think if something really critical is about to happen technology will find an answer. But admittedly I also have a very short-term view of the problem.