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Per capita CO2 emissions by country. (lemmygrad.ml)
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[โ€“] Bavett@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really see how historic emissions are relevant to the current rate of CO2 production.

[โ€“] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

This is akin to the argument that "I don't see how colonialism is relevant now... most of that happened hundreds of years ago.

2 things wrong here. Western countries are polluting more per capita currently, one of the world's biggest polluters is the US military for example. Secondly just as hundreds of years of theft made western countries richer at the expense of those they colonized, climate change is a result of decades of damage to the environment by countries who now want to point fingers at anyone but themselves.