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Originally Posted by Lebell
I'll just note that the 'per-capita' comparison is BS, IMO.
What matters is totals.
That per-capita comparison makes China and India look much better than actual and the US worse since the US has a smaller population than either (by approximately 1/5 of each or 1/10 of both.)
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So Iceland should be entitled to pollute just as much as China and the USA?
Maybe you could factor in land area, but then again Australia shouldn't be able to pollute as much as Europe.
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
akula,
I don't understand #3.
QUOTE: 3. An increase of emissions is required to to escape poverty more rapidly.
Why does it have to be this way? actually, I think that may very well be the main point.
If the asumption is that emissions standards create economic advantages, then what is the rational? Why does that necessarily hold true? How would reducing emissions hurt one's economy?
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I agree that China should build clean factories (not likely to happen though), the thing is when a country develops into an industrialised one factories that emmit pollution will be built, increasing total emissions. (Even if the factories are efficient, though in most cases they aren't. I agree this should change.)