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by familysized 2465 days ago
> Earth doesn't care about "emission per capita" though, it just cares about the total sum of emissions...

True. How about reducing the extremely high per-capita emissions of developed countries? That will result in a huge drop in the total sum of emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

People in such countries are taking up too many resources and that is not sustainable for the planet. There needs to be a carbon tax.