Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat...
by rbritton on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:52PM
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Why are per-capita emissions a more important number than net emissions? With the former, China is behind us (roughly half) whereas with the latter, they're roughly double based on the current Wikipedia numbers.
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Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat...
by swampthing on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:05PM
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I'm not saying they're more important.
But as for why they are important, I think that there is some relationship between how people live and per-capita emissions. So if you ignore the population size and only look at net emissions, the people in larger countries would be held to a higher standard than the people in the smaller countries.