[olivermarks]

Pakistan and India have enormous amounts of heavy industries, Nigeria massive extraction. 'Carbon footprint' per person is somewhat irrelevant in this heavily industrialized context. Globalization has shifted unpleasant, grimmy polluting activities to these types of countries, while people sanctimoniously push mice around in the first world...

[AlgerianSam]

Carbon footprint is a measure that takes into account such transfers and makes it even worse for OECD countries which tend to externalise emissions.

Still, OECD countries are 10-20 worse than Pakistan or India (per person).