When sea levels rise and poor Indians who live near the sea are affected, is the Indian govt going to help them or will the rich countries need to step in like they did during Covid?
You can talk about per capita all you want but in the end who is going to support the affected Indians?
>in the end who is going to support the affected Indians? nobody, but that is besides the point
Genuinely curious
- Electricity and heat benefit from a bigger electricity network (e.g. to get more reliable solar and wind), but electrical grids don't necessarily follow borders. The US has about 3 grids, continental Europe has a grid spanning 24 countries. (in fact, there's almost no grids that span exactly one country [1])
- Agriculture doesn't hugely benefit from economies of scale beyond the regional level
- Transport benefits mostly from rail networks, which aren't really bound to borders
You can make a case that population density helps (most obvious in the case of transport, but it is really helpful for lots of things), and being an island makes electricity harder. But in the case of Australia, it has to be noted that the negative effect on electricity from being an island is somewhat lessened by their vast area, and the negative effect of low population density on transport emissions is somewhat lessened by most Australians actually living in pretty high density.
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The marginal effect of removing Australia’s emissions is like a rounding error in the climate equation.
Please stop blaming India and China without much research.