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AndrewKemendo
31 days ago
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You can’t do carbon production attribution the same between a consumption and a production nation at the per capita level
Someone paying to fly a private jet and a slave putting coal into a furnace aren’t the same
rafabulsing
31 days ago
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I really don't see that as a fair comparison. OP wasn't equating individual citizens, they were equating the nations as a whole. And China, as a state, definitely isn't akin to a slave being forced to do this dirty work.
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Someone paying to fly a private jet and a slave putting coal into a furnace aren’t the same