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by ephemeralism 2133 days ago
Are you in all honesty trying to argue that it would be fair and just if a Chinese person was only allowed to emit one tenth of that of a German person?
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That would not be fair and just. As of 2018 China emits 8 tons of CO2 per capita while Germany emits 9.1:

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

I expect the per-capita gap to shrink further in the next few years. China's much higher absolute emissions are largely a function of its much larger population.