[leokennis]

I’m assuming you’re from Germany. This makes you (and me, from The Netherlands) a huge over consumer of “carbon”. See for example https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02... or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_... and compare European countries to the “third world”.

Let’s face it, with our long hot showers, far holidays, cars and meat eating we are making withdrawals from Earth, hoping the people in Africa will stay poor so they cannot, to balance it out...

[grecht]

> hoping that people in Africa will stay poor so they cannot

That’s a pretty far-fetched allegation which does not contribute anything to the discussion, but instead makes it seem more black/white or rather good/bad.