Unless China and India cut emissions drastically it’s a drop in the ocean. There should be tariffs on the biggest emitters to the point where they can’t afford to NOT cut emissions if they want to trade good and services.
The US really needs to step up though, they’re not even in the Paris agreement
(And even at a third the GDP per capital, Chinese carbon emissions per capita surpass the likes of Germany, let alone France.)
How about we stop acting as if the West wasn't just shifting pollution onto poorer nations by exploiting them as factories and landfills?
Americans should stop driving bulldozers instead of blaming the poor
Total country emissions are an indicator of population and lifestyle. Since reducing the population is not an option for most countries, the solution is changing lifestyle.
While I do agree that both need to reduce emissions, we need to endure inconveniences and move our tax dollars to clean energy, while they have to continue being poor forever or spend inordinate amounts of money to industrialize using clean energy.