Re:Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
by ced on Saturday September 03, 2016 @11:07AM
(#12419453)
Allocating every country the same per-capita quota of emission would be both fair, _and_ would save the planet, if the quota is low enough and exchangeable. But that would imply that we, the high per-capita polluting countries would pay money to poor countries like India to buy their excess quota.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
by bad_user on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:21PM
(#12421269)
Fair would also be to impose a maximum fertility rate. When the fertility rate is off the charts for the developing countries, unfair is the per capita quota.
If the goal is for humanity to survive on this planet, then clearly an exponential growth in population isn't sustainable. More fair would be to have quotas per square meter actually.
Re:Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
by rrrazdan on Saturday September 03, 2016 @07:27PM
(#12421775)
Sure let's have quotas per sq meter of arable land adjusted for number of crops you can grow in a year? Or better still on yield of the soil. Makes more sense than a straight per sq m quota.