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No they are not. Birth rates have declined in India and China as well. However, all those people have to live ssomewhere. So, per capita emissions are more than fair and accurate. If that is not the right way to look at it then how about the US (second highest level of total CO2 emissions behind China) reduce it to the level of, say, Lichtenstein.



Maybe, but the current growth rate in CO2 + the large populations don't seem encouraging!: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/absolute-change-co2?count...


I mean...hopefully eventually ..




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