People will either intentionally sacrifice to slow climate change or destroy itself.
Neoliberal society will come to an end one way or another.
Neoliberal society will come to an end one way or another.
Eight countries will make up over half the projected total population increase by 2050: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Philippines and Egypt.
India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country next year (2023), when China’s population is expected to start declining.
(Source: United Nations Population Fund, 2022)
These places are ground zero for environmental concerns imo
The carbon footprint of a US person is in order of 20 tons, EU countries are around 8-10 tons.
So I’d say that the problem lies with OECD countries, no the others.
Companies and governments talk out one side of their mouth about being green and carbon neutral, then tell people they need to burn fossil fuels to come to work, by unaffordable electric cars to be around people you don't work with in expensive to live city centers that they don't pay enough to live in, much less have a family of one or two children, and nuclear is bad.
I've stopped listening, because it's pointless, all I see is highway construction to add more lanes rather than making viable public transportation. If they really believed any of it they'd be doing something about it. I do my little bit, but having this insane nihilistic anxiety about it is far worse.
Still, OECD countries are 10-20 worse than Pakistan or India (per person).
If you want to assign blame sure an American might be 10 time more responsible than a Pakistani, a Chinese may be twice as culpable is a French. That doesn't really solve anything though. The problem isn't the amount of CO2 in the air divided by the number of living humans.
Emissions intensity of production IMO is a better one because it promotes efficient industry without exerting the wrong incentives on population or quality of life.
Seems rational to exerce change of this reduced fraction. Indian or Pakistani are respecting their share in terms of emissions in order for climate increase to stay under 2 degrees. We are not, so we need to change that.