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by pkaye 3303 days ago
For one, health issues related to air quality have no basis on per capita pollution.
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But air quality degeneration does have a lot of basis on per capita pollution. The per capita argument was good enough to set the tone at Paris, for an agreement between all the nations on this planet. The argument against per capita pollution contribution is just willful ignorance.

Besides, none of you have even bothered to look at the figures. India's current coal consumption is less than 30% of the US, for a population 4-5 times larger. Even if we double our coal consumption, it wouldn't outstrip US at their current levels.

> But air quality degeneration does have a lot of basis on per capita pollution.

Can you explain to me how this works?