Tracking Carbon Emissions by Stanford Kay, 2011 https://mapdesign.icaci.org/2014/08/mapcarte-238365-tracking-carbon-emissions-by-stanford-kay-2011/ Posted on August 26, 2014
SS: in whatsapp comment: This is a clever way, in the current context, of making a decidedly misleading and dangerous argument more saleable.
India and China (or China and India?) are, the most vocal votaries of this argument in order to defend continued use of fossil fuels in general and coal in particular.
The most vulnerable small island countries threatened with imminent submurgence are the bitterest critics.
This logic also tries deflect from the huge domestic asymmetry in terms of carbon footprints.
Most importantly, this historic inequity has got to be factored in by making the already developed countries provide adequate (financial and technological) support to the developing ones to transit to low-carbon growth while themselves capping and reversing their emission levels.
But, humanity is facing an imminent doom.
It's decidedly easier to shape the future than amending the past.
All hands have got to be on deck.
Petty nationalism is a big impediment in tackling a truly global crisis.
JD: While I agree with Debi.. that it is a complex issue.. we cannot ignore the fact that countries like India are trying to re-shape and preempt global governance. You will recall that Indira Gandhi sent MA Qasim to Antartica just before the Law of the Sea negotiations. the same seems to be the case with the Moon/Space, while NASA is dishing out contracts, we to are trying to get a piece of the pie in the sky. Thew only difference is that the current sovereigns are trying to contract "international" common resources to private companies, who will demand a heavy price for what was "family silver". In the Case of Climate Change, the entire scam in India on coal, the contracts, as well as the power purchase agreements, threaten to be the stumbling blocs to international agreement, unless poor countries who suffer will pay the Adani's and e Musks of the world! Either way , they win, because they will be hailed as the carbon capitalists of the world....