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I'll give you an example.

Americans (US citizens) eat 114 kg (or 251 pounds) of meat yearly on average.

Chinese eat on average 42kg (or 93 pounds) of meat. It's almost 1/3 (actually it's 37%).

Americans are over eating, Chinese are slightly under eating.

Chinese are more or less eating the same amount of meat a domestic cat eats in the USA.

Which is kinda revealing of how much in the west we abuse of the system.

So if the meat consumption was spread among all countries equally, but most of all correctly, Americans would eat a lot less, while Chinese would eat just a bit more.

It's the same with emissions, some countries are over emitting, it's not about spreading them equally, it's about stopping the abusers.

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That would claim that those who over produced (or over ate) were abusers. If the Americans, in your example, over ate because they produced more of the world's needs, are they abusers? If China stopped industries that cause global warming, would those industries only be picked up by other countries because they are wanted or needed?

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> If the Americans, in your example, over ate because they produced more of the world's needs, are they abusers?

We know they did it in the past for profit and to flood developing countries with their products so that they wouldn't develop their own economy, because their home made products would cost more, so yes, they are abusers.

But USA stopped manufacturing almost everything 30 years ago. On purpose. Despite that, they are still one of the worst polluters per capita.

By Co2 emissions alone they produce per capita 300% of the global average.

By Co2 emissions alone.

For comparison EU stops at 117%, my country in EU at 100%, 1/3 of the USA per capita, 1/15th in total.

> If China stopped industries that cause global warming, would those industries only be picked up by other countries because they are wanted or needed?

It would immediately halt the world's economy and it would take at least 30 years to go back to a new normal. Some other country would pick those industries up, probably more than one country, each one of them with lesser output and smaller economy of scale, raising prices.

Short answer: because they are needed.